Enable AFS/AuriStorFS filesystem support

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
linux

Research direction

Start with Microsoft/config-wsl and review how filesystem and networking kernel options are organized. Add the requested AFS, AF_RXRPC, and RXKAD settings, then verify that the WSL2 kernel configuration builds successfully with these options.

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Description

feature

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
AFS/AuriStorFS filesystem support is available in the Linux kernel. Many distributions enable the required functionality in their kernel builds. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL (9.2 and later). As many of these distributions are available for use with WSL2 it would be useful if the microsoft-standard-WSL2 kernels offered the functionality required by the userland packages provided by the distributions.

Describe the solution you'd like
Please add the following to Microsoft/config-wsl
CONFIG_AFS_FS=y CONFIG_AFS_DEBUG=y CONFIG_AFS_DEBUG_CURSOR=y CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE=y CONFIG_AF_RXRPC=y CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_IPV6=y CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_DEBUG=y CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_INJECT_LOSS=n CONFIG_RXKAD=y

Describe alternatives you've considered
Distributing a custom kernel build

Additional context
kAFS and AF_RXRPC Homepage

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