Hello Junsouh,
Thank you for your interest in OpenAFS! On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:26:11 -0500 Junsouh Hong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Junsouh Hong, a computer science student currently studying at > Carnegie Mellon University (the birthplace of AFS!), and I plan to > concentrate in systems engineering in the future. I have some extensive > experience in C and a decent understanding of CLIs/low-level systems. > > I recently began looking at the OpenAFS codebase, and I checked out the > repository to begin reading the source code around the afsio CLI tool and > start experimenting with the system. > > I had a couple questions: > 1. Should I look at the existing mount point and ACL commands the code for > fs in order to understand how I might implement it in afsio, or would that > not be particularly useful? Yes it would be useful to fully understand the current implementation, in the cache manager and the file server. > 2. The description of the project mentions "recent changes" that made > authenticated use of afsio without a kernel module possible; are there any > specific commits that reflect these changes, or in general any changes > involving afsio, that I might want to look at for better understanding? See the changes that added the '-as-user' option to afsio. > 3. Are there any small bugs/issues that a new contributor like me could > resolve in order to get familiar with the patch process? Your best chance to get familiar with Gerrit and the process is to read the related areas of the contributor guide and submit non-code, or trivial changes that would not break or change things. > 4. How should I continue contact? If I have further questions, should I ask > them here, or should I use the IRC chat, or some other method? (My IRC > nickname is oranges102) Feel free to contact me if you have any specific questions, or this list for any general openafs questions. > Thank you so much for your time! > > Best, > Jun Thank you, Mike -- Michael Meffie <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
