[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Friday, June 18, 2010 11:28:45 AM +0200 Harald Barth <haba@kth.se> 
wrote:

>
>> Shipping DAFS and declaring it supported is the major feature of 1.6.
>> Making it the default is another question entirely.
>
> If you don't make it the default, the immediate reaction will be:
> "Why, can it not be trusted?". Or is there any _other_ reason
> not to make it default?

Because it's new and not yet widely used.
Because not all of us are as confident as the gatekeepers that it's stable.
Because a DAFS fileserver is useless with existing bosserver configuration.
Because it violates the principle of least surprise.

Pick one.