[OpenAFS-devel] Silly problem: support for partitions vicepa-z, vicepaa-zz

[Rainer Toebbicke]

We now ran into a silly little naming problem with our vicepX 
partitions - named a bit too generously in order to match RAIDs 
connected to a FC switch.

I am now faced with having a /vicepja-/vicepjd, ..., /vicepka-/vicepkd 
  etc... and of course although the file server attaches them bravely, 
the vos utilities and the vldb resist.

The proposed changes are straightforward: continue limiting to 255 the 
total number of partitions on a file server so that the RPCs and array 
declarations don't blow up, but allow partition ids from 0 to 27*26-1.

This goes together with a change in the vlserver where the limitation 
to 255 partitions does not seem to serve a constructive purpose anyway.

Changing the code rather than a silly layout convention sounds 
drastic, but on the other hand running into a difficult-to-remember 
barrier in midst the /vicepiX series is ugly as well, so I consider 
this more a clean-up operation.

Anything that I might have overlooked?










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Rainer Toebbicke
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