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

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:44:45 -0500
> Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
>
>> I would prefer that services not change their configurations without
>> my explicit consent. That said, I think that refusing to start with
>> an invalid config and printing the correct one to the console and the
>> logs is a good idea.
>
> Well, that's the problem. A valid 1.4 BosConfig is still a valid
> BosConfig with a DAFS-enabled bosserver, it's just not what most people
> will want. So, I don't think we can error out with a message saying how
> to change it, since it's conceivable someone will want that
> configuration. So, we could just print out a warning, basically saying
> "if things don't work, here's probably why". Or I suppose we could have
> a new bosserver flag that forces allowing the uncommon config.

Well, the bosserver could attempt to stat() salvageserver and error
instead of trying an "fs" configuration if it exists.