[OpenAFS-devel] RFC: Status returned by vos for pre-attached volumes on demand-attach

[Steve Simmons]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Steven Jenkins wrote:
>> While I don't necessarily disagree that the additional information
>> would be useful to Windows clients (or cache managers in general),
>> that is orthogonal to our request, which, as Ali's mail states, is
>> about the vos command, which uses UV_ListOneVolume, and, in turn,
>> AFSVolListOneVolume.
>
> Similar arguments apply.  There are third party AFS volume mgmt
> tools that have been developed which will be unaware of the meaning
> of the new states.  In order to prevent those tools from breaking
> new RPCs should be implemented.

Strongly agree. Preserve the old RPC as is, add a new one to get the  
extended data. Once the new one works, mark the old one as deprecated  
with a scheduled expiration at some specific future date.