[OpenAFS-devel] disconnected operations status

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I'm wondering what sort of real-world testing anyone has done with
disconnected operation. I am about to take the plunge and install 1.5.55
on my laptop as well as a xen server, and see what happens when I try to
access my Maildir mailboxes.

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:49:16PM +0300, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    Here's a patch that contains the disconnected operations developed during
> GSoC 2008:
> /afs/hcoop.net/user/d/dt/dtatulea/open_afs/discon_full.patch
>    I encourage you to try it and give me your bugs and opinions. Those
> interested in doing a little code reviewing, can find in the same directory
> in a series of patches named 0x.discon_something.  These are the little
> patches that comprise the discon_full.patch, you can check them out if you
> want to see all the steps. The disconnected.txt tries to describe how the
> code works.
> 
> Note: the 00-02 patches are small refactoring patches that are already in
> RT, disconnected ops use them.
> 
>    Here's a brief list of what's in this patch:
> - read/write/create/rename/delete support (files and dirs)
> - fs discon has different args now (compared to Simon's read only
> disconnected code)
> 
>    This patch doesn't contain (aka: roadmap):
> - cache pinning: you will have to fetch the files yourselves before
> disconnecting
> - persistent disconnection: disconnected data is lost after a power down
> - security: supports only one disconnected user
> 
>    I'm waiting for your feedback.
> 
> Bye,
> Dragos