[OpenAFS] Long Machine Names

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "James" == James Peterson <jimpeter@us.ibm.com> writes:

    James> NOTE: The 12 character limit for computer name is part of
    James> windows limitation on share names.  We need to append
    James> "-afs" to the name so the AFS SMB cache manager knows what
    James> messages belong to it.  There has been a long conversation
    James> about having a fixed machine name for AFS clients; however,
    James> there has not been any concensus about that yet.

Really?  I haven't seen anyone speak out against it and several people
in favor.  I thought it was more that fixed machine names required
work.