[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Breaking callbacks on unlink

[u-openafsdev-hk1a@aetey.se]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:09:04AM -0500, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
> if i give you a calculator and it works fine except that square root
> sometimes gives the wrong answer, would you use it?  did i forget to
> tell you that the square root might be wrong?  how do you know when the
> square root will give the right answer?  wouldn't you prefer to know
> that square root will always be wrong instead of possibly right.
> 
> the argument with regard to breaking the callbacks is getting the same
> behavior every time regardless of whether or not you like the result. i
> would argue this should be the default and if there is any flag, it
> should be "enable legacy unlink behavior that hinges upon what
> you might have to done to precondition your local cache".

+1

Rune