[OpenAFS-devel] RxOSD configure option

Felix Frank Felix.Frank@Desy.de
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:15:37 +0200


>> Also, it's vital that it's impossible to shoot yourself in the foot by
>> accidentally installing a non-rxosd server on a rxosd machine, or vice
>> versa. This means that even if you do end up using configure switches,
>> both versions have to equally aware of each other's data to correctly
>> preserve it.
> 
> The current #ifdefs sometimes have #else branches. So it's guaranteed
> that on a partition which has volumes created by an OSD-fileserver a
> non-OSD-fileserver would not start. Current OpenAFS fileservers would
> start because they don't know about the difference!

Right, thanks for the reminder. That's a patch that should be submitted 
asap.
Its behavior can later be extended to (e.g.) what Jeffrey proposed.

  - Felix