Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-27 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Sean O'Malley writes: I ran into the same problem =) I started hacking AFS to get userland stuff working, but put a dent in my head banging off the wall. I did manage to get it to compile, and started in with lint but that was about as far as I got. :) dont bother

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-27 Thread Sean O'Malley
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: dont bother with lint. just collect the warnings. anything about implicit is likely bad news on 64-bit. after than, any casting to/from wrong size integers is possibly bad. afs has a habit of casting int's to void * and back again

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-26 Thread Sean O'Malley
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Carson Gaspar wrote: And sadly many user-land pieces still are not 64-bit clean. I know that I've had to fall back to 32-bit mode for several apps on my Solaris x86 server, as I didn't have the time energy to fix the crappy source. I ran into the same problem =) I

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-26 Thread Carson Gaspar
Sean O'Malley wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Carson Gaspar wrote: And sadly many user-land pieces still are not 64-bit clean. I know that I've had to fall back to 32-bit mode for several apps on my Solaris x86 server, as I didn't have the time energy to fix the crappy source. I ran into the

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-25 Thread Kenneth Baker
Chris, thanks for the confirmation that this would work. Since then I was able to put together a system as I described (Debian/sarge 32bit user space with a amd64 kernel and openafs) and I am pleased to say that openafs works like a champ. Sadly, as Chaskiel and Carson deduced I am not in a

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-24 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Carson Gaspar writes: And sadly many user-land pieces still are not 64-bit clean. I know that I've had to fall back to 32-bit mode for several apps on my Solaris x86 server, as I didn't have the time energy to fix the crappy source. i know there are issues with

[OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-23 Thread Kenneth Baker
I am hoping to run a mixed environment with an amd64 kernel and a 32bit user space (along with a few statically compiled 64 bit apps). Before I try this I would like to know if the openafs user space tools running in the 32bit user space will communicate correctly with the amd64 kernel? Has

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-23 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
Ken: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Kenneth Baker wrote: I am hoping to run a mixed environment with an amd64 kernel and a 32bit user space (along with a few statically compiled 64 bit apps). Before I try this I would like to know if the openafs user space tools running in the 32bit user space will

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-23 Thread Chaskiel M Grundman
--On Friday, March 23, 2007 12:33:42 PM -0400 Christopher Allen Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this works; however, why do you want to use 32-bit user space? Not that I know ken's reasoning, but here's why I would do so: Because I already have a managed 32-bit environment, and creating

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

2007-03-23 Thread Carson Gaspar
Chaskiel M Grundman wrote: --On Friday, March 23, 2007 12:33:42 PM -0400 Christopher Allen Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this works; however, why do you want to use 32-bit user space? Not that I know ken's reasoning, but here's why I would do so: Because I already have a managed