Novell Storage Services

Hello,

While digging around Novell OES sources distributed on the linux 3rd 
disc, I've stumbled upon km_nss-4.06.20050217-0.2.src.rpm which 
apparently has the source code to NSS on linux and it's all under GNU 
GPL. Also, I've seen that SLES 9 SP3 ships with newer version. So, I 
wonder if it's distributed with OES and SLES only or is there some place 
where I can get latest versions to play with?

With best regards,

> GPL. Also, I've seen that SLES 9 SP3 ships with newer version. So, I 

Victor V. Shkamerda wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While digging around Novell OES sources distributed on the linux 3rd
> disc, I've stumbled upon km_nss-4.06.20050217-0.2.src.rpm which
> apparently has the source code to NSS on linux and it's all under GNU
> GPL. Also, I've seen that SLES 9 SP3 ships with newer version. So, I
> wonder if it's distributed with OES and SLES only or is there some place
> where I can get latest versions to play with?

I'll start with the background. It's shipped because it's impractical to
deliver the kernel modules compiled to run on even a fraction of the
kernels out there. AFAIK, it's not all the NSS source that is published,
only the kernel module source. Large parts of NSS run in user-mode as I
understand it.

I thought that there was a forge project hosting the source so you could

David Mair wrote:
> I'll start with the background. It's shipped because it's impractical to
> deliver the kernel modules compiled to run on even a fraction of the
> kernels out there.  AFAIK, it's not all the NSS source that is published,
> only the kernel module source. Large parts of NSS run in user-mode as I
> understand it.

True. But I thought that the kernel module alone is enough to read-write 
NSS volumes. OTOH I can be wrong.

> I thought that there was a forge project hosting the source so you could
> go check. If you can't find anything I will ask the team.

I will be grateful if you ask them about it. The only project that I can 
find on forge.novell.com is nwfs-lw, which hosts the traditional NetWare 
filesystem.

With best regards,

Victor V. Shkamerda wrote:
> David Mair wrote:
> 
>> I'll start with the background. It's shipped because it's impractical
to
>> deliver the kernel modules compiled to run on even a fraction of the
>> kernels out there.  AFAIK, it's not all the NSS source that is
published,
>> only the kernel module source. Large parts of NSS run in user-mode as
I
>> understand it.
> 
> 
> True. But I thought that the kernel module alone is enough to read-write
> NSS volumes. OTOH I can be wrong.

If you can't create them it probably doesn't matter if you could read or
write them. FWIW, the user mode parts probably change much less
frequently than the kernel pieces so you can probably keep original user
mode parts and keep updating the kernel parts with no issues.

>> I thought that there was a forge project hosting the source so you
could
>> go check. If you can't find anything I will ask the team.
> 
> 
> I will be grateful if you ask them about it. The only project that I can
> find on forge.novell.com is nwfs-lw, which hosts the traditional NetWare
> filesystem.

There is no public repository that is being updated as the team does
updates. That's impractical since real-time updates are always
work-in-progress towards the next ship vehicle (major release, SP,
patch, etc). The only liklely source releases will be packages published