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

[Rainer Toebbicke]

Jeffrey Hutzelman schrieb:

>>
>> Anything that I might have overlooked?
> 
> Partition ID's are used to record the location of a volume in the VLDB, 
> and the on-disk database format only has room for 8 bits of partition 
> ID.  So making a change such as you propose would require a change to 

I knew I overlooked something - the RPC definition has plenty of room 
but of course the database did not quite match that one.

Well, a VLDB conversion is of course not rocket science, and then one 
would also reconsider the MAXSERVERID limitation. But that needs 
better motivation than a silly partition-naming convention. Something 
for quieter days.

Thanks!

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