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

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Horst Birthelmer 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?
>
> Well, the AIX servers aren't that stable compiled with largefile support.
> The salvager isn't working properly either.

Shouldn't that code be rather OS independent, or am I missing 
something? I can understand if the inode server-related stuff (fsck 
etc) goes bananas due to largefiles, but the generic salvager really 
should not...

> I don't think it would be a big deal, but somebody has to debug and fix that.
> (if possible, before we make it the default ;-) )

Making it the default on the platforms that has it tested and proven 
stable would be a start, which are those anyway?

/Nikke
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