[OpenAFS-devel] Proposal: end the LWP charade

[omalleys@msu.edu]

Quoting Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>:

> Do it!

> But don't forget that the database servers are not yet pthread-ready.

Is this going to be a -lot- of work? or is this something more trivial?

If it is a -lot- of work, I would think a complete rewrite might be  
better, and if there was going to be a database format or backend db  
change like libs or adding hooks to a sql/ldap type of server, now  
seems like a reasonable time to add it.(even if it is just adding the  
hooks or extending the db structure) (summer of code maybe?)

Also has anyone fired up a cell in virtual machines, then run the vm  
instances under valgrind running a test suite to look for various  
issues? It might catch some threading issues and race conditions.  
Might also be a fun summer of code type of project if someone hasn't.  
*shrugs*