[OpenAFS] GiveUpAllCallBacks callers

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:47:22 -0500


>> An RPC with a version vector or something more reliable than a text
>> string has already been discussed
>> and is presumably going to be in the offing.
>
> So the options for introducing the GiveUpAllCallBacks are:
>
> a) Wait for the version vector RPC

no benefit til new stuff is deployed

> b) Do something with the version string in the meantime

i'm not wild about this.

> c) Just state that 1.4.5 is "too old" to bother

possibly that being today.

> d) The GetStatistics64 RPC trick


> Even if I as time goes more and more tend to c), the b) or a) options
> give the client a chance to nag about upgrading if such servers are
> still out there.

i hear someone has an "afs version" census tool. I wonder what Andrew
Bacchi thinks :)



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Derrick