[OpenAFS-devel] afsd default options

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Jim Rees wrote:
> 
> > Now that the 1.3.5x train has left the station, I think we should change
> the
> > default options to afsd.  The current defaults no longer make sense.  I
> > propose:
> >
> > afsd -dynroot -afsdb -fakestat -nosettime -chunksize 18
> 
> curious how -dynroot versus non-dynroot makes more sense? smells like site
> policy to me, but i'm wondering what you're thinking that i'm missing

Using -dynroot allows you to start AFS while off-net, whereas you MUST be
able to contact your root.afs servers during bootup if you are not using
-dynroot.

-derek


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