[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Thinking about 1.6

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Wednesday, December 16, 2009 01:46:04 PM -0500 Derrick Brashear 
<shadow@gmail.com> wrote:

> bos exec still works unless you give the restricted command line
> switch. if you turn on random options without reading what you're
> doing, you get what you paid for.

Perhaps you missed the part where Simon advocated making the new behavior 
the default?

>> Are we / how long are we keeping the inode fileserver backend around?
>
> for sites with solaris 8, might as well let them upgrade to 1.6.
> anyone else, well, i hope they aren't still using it.

We're still running it, on Solaris 9, and are in no hurry to change. 
Making this backend go away in 1.6, such that people are forced to change 
backends in order to upgrade their fileservers, seems too soon to me.

Making it the default behavior might be OK, provided we add code to make 
the fileserver recognize a vice partition containing existing inode volumes 
and refuse to start.

-- Jeff