[OpenAFS] OpenAFS future ramblings

[Derrick J Brashear]

Have I mentioned recently how much I hate wide-reply email clients?

> > > > The client cache works JUST FINE on journalling file systems. It is
> > > > solely reiserfs that it has a problem with because you cannot retrieve a
> > > > file from an inode number. Ext3 works just dandy for cache partitions.
> > > > In fact, on many of my machines (and after January 6th, all 140+ of
> > > > them), the cache partition is ext3, and everything else is reiserfs.
> > > > File server is running on reiserfs for it's vice partitions as well.
> > > 
> > > What's it like with UFS mounted logging?
> > 
> > Does UFS support logging on Linux? Because that's what the original
> > question was;-) On Solaris, there's a problem, but that problem doesn't
> > seem to affect any of my Linux machines.
> 
> Hey, it sounded like it meant ALL OSen :-)

He excerpted the question away.

> But as a tangent, what's the problem with logging and where is it on
> the "to be fixed" list (as in "when I get around to it" "when hell
> freezes over" "when sun releases the UltraSparc III specs" "when MS
> releases the source to NT")

When we have some prayer of doing so. The same problem would affect an nfs
mount of the local host from the local host, apparently; kolya can offer a
better summary. We'd need to detect deadlock and unroll, I'm guessing, as
the only way of avoidance.