[AFS3-std] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Hackathon Summary

[Hartmut Reuter]

Jeffrey Hutzelman schrieb:
> --On Friday, October 09, 2009 03:12:14 PM +0100 Simon Wilkinson 
> <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>> We will rename 'ResidencyMask' to 'DataAccessProtocol' in a revised
>> version of FetchStatus.
> 
> Where by "rename", you mean get rid of the old field, and add a new one, 
> with a different name and completely different semantics, and not ever 
> try to claim they are the same field.  Right? Right?
> 

Not exactly: the current OpenAFS fileservers fill this field with one 
which meant the file is on the local_disk residency. For backward 
compatibility also the new field will contain a one for plain AFS files 
in the fileserver's partition. But, of course, the meaning of all other 
values is different to the old use.

-Hartmut
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