[OpenAFS-devel] AFS/DFS Mount points

[Kyle Moffett]

On Apr 10, 2005, at 21:17, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Dean Anderson wrote:
>> I would presume that it wouldn't be too hard for the client side to
>> support both to allow for easy migration.  A period of say, two or 
>> three
>> years?
>
> I believe a period of ten years or more would be required.  There are
> many systems I have come across which are still running AFS 3.4 builds.
> The reality is that until the machines die, the clients are not going 
> away.

At least provide a client option --disable-symlink-mounts that disables 
the
deprecated functionality for those of us without such ancient versions.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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