The patches are against OpenAFS 1.2.7 and are available from - permission.patch Conservatively fakes the mode bits on files and directories, so that the Finder and other apps using the Carbon and Cocoa libraries don't try to restrict access based on them. This means that all AFS files can be easily accessed from the Finder without needing to change uids or taking any other extra-special measures. - mount.patch Allows AFS to be mounted multiple times, each mountpoint with its own root volume. This allows usage similar to the Windows client, e.g., mounting a drive that contains only the user's home directory. Our users find this much easier to work with than having to navigate the entire AFS tree in the Finder or open/save dialog. I have also included mount_afs.tar.gz, which provides a "mount_afs" command that can be used to mount a volume and register it with the DiskArbitration system so that it shows up in the Finder immediately and can be ejected correctly by the user. Note that this patch also makes it so that /afs (mounted by afsd) will not unmount unless MNT_FORCE is given. This prevents the user from accidentally ejecting /afs in the Finder, and also works around a DiskArb bug in Mac OS X (maybe fixed in 10.2?) where autodiskmount would sometimes unmount /afs when logging out. - afsd.patch This patch has afsd register /afs with the DiskArbitration system when mounting it. This means that the root afs volume shows up in the Finder immediately, and also prevents the Finder from getting confused by additional AFS volumes later on (i.e., if you use mount.patch, you need this one too). Also adds a "-nomount" option to afsd, which prevents afsd from mounting /afs. We use this by default on our Mac OS X client, so that AFS doesn't show up in the interface at all unless the user explicitly asks for an AFS volume to be mounted. This is especially handy for portable or remote users who don't always have a network connection, since there isn't an AFS volume around to hang the Finder if the AFS servers can't be contacted (the cache manager may still hang, but since there are no AFS volumes mounted, no one cares). - rc.patch The standard SystemStarter (rc) script uses grep, which isn't part of the base Mac OS X install (it's in the BSD package). This patch replaces the use of grep with perl, which is included.