[OpenAFS-devel] --enable-namei-fileserver and --enable-largefile-fileserver

Niklas Edmundsson Niklas.Edmundsson@hpc2n.umu.se
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:56:48 +0200 (MEST)


On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jim Rees wrote:

> I want to make --enable-namei-fileserver and --enable-largefile-fileserver
> be the default for the BSDs.  The inode server isn't really stable and I
> don't see any reason to continue supporting it.  And I don't see any point
> in not building with largefile support.  I suspect other platforms are in
> the same boat.
>
> Should we make these the default for all platforms, and add corresponding
> --disable-foo options?  Do this just for the BSDs?

Stuff that the announcement brags about should be default IMO, ie 
largefile, supergroups and whatnot should be default... Stuff that's 
not enabled by default due to its experimental nature should probably 
be noted as "experimental" in the announcement.

/Nikke
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