[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: Thinking about 1.6

[omalleys@msu.edu]

Quoting "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>:

> On 12/16/2009 2:37 PM, omalleys@msu.edu wrote:
>> Quoting "Derrick Brashear" <shadow@gmail.com>:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Are we / how long are we keeping the inode fileserver backend around?
>>>
>>> for sites with solaris 8, might as well let them upgrade to 1.6.
>>> anyone else, well, i hope they aren't still using it.
>>
>> Solaris 8/9 hit the darn near unsupported list from Sun.
>> By the time 1.6 reaches production there won't be anyone running it at
>> least on production hardware.
>
> There are lots of orgs that run unsupported OS versions in production.
>
Right. I have a few of those too. I'm not looking to upgrade to the  
latest and greatest in those instances either. Usually Im just trying  
to keep it alive until I can upgrade it.