[OpenAFS-devel] RxOSD configure option

[Jeffrey Altman]

Felix Frank wrote:
> Note that from outside, servers build with and without OSD support
> initially act the same. The OSD-capable fileserver will change behaviour
> if and when one or more of its volumes are set to use OSD.
> However, the fileserver flavors are not interoperable wrt. the on-disk
> data, so binaries cannot be replaced at will. As an OpenAFS-server with
> full RxOSD support will thus be incompatible to earlier versions, it
> might after all be desirable to continue building non-OSD binaries.

Preferably the old on-disk format will be used and OSD disabled if
present.  A conversion tool would be provided to migrate between the
old and new formats in both directions.  OSD will be enabled at run
time only if the new on-disk format is in use.

Jeffrey Altman