[AFS3-std] rxgk: Rekeying

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 08:46:09 PM -0400 Tom Keiser 
<tkeiser@sinenomine.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure advisory byte life is going to be satisfactory for all
> rxgk use cases.  Consider the afs3 volume dump and forward RPCs, which
> treat the split interface as a long-lived bulk transport.  We know
> that there are sites which routinely move several terabytes of data
> under a single split call, over periods of many hours.  Given the
> extremely large amounts of data being transported, and the relatively
> long time periods over which a split call can exist, I think we would
> be remiss to ignore the rekeying problem.

Yes, this is an issue.  I think we decided at the time that it wasn't worth 
worrying about, but that decision is probably worth revisiting.