[OpenAFS-devel] AFS/DFS Mount points
Kyle Moffett
mrmacman_g4@mac.com
Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:46:04 -0400
On Apr 10, 2005, at 21:17, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Dean Anderson wrote:
>> I would presume that it wouldn't be too hard for the client side to
>> support both to allow for easy migration. A period of say, two or
>> three
>> years?
>
> I believe a period of ten years or more would be required. There are
> many systems I have come across which are still running AFS 3.4 builds.
> The reality is that until the machines die, the clients are not going
> away.
At least provide a client option --disable-symlink-mounts that disables
the
deprecated functionality for those of us without such ancient versions.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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