[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Moving Forwards

[Andrew Deason]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:36:34 -0400
Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:

> and figure out where you will store the addresses, since at least as
> is the vldb won't.
> 
> if you fork, you could define your own format there and store it. all
> your vldbs would have to be
> "TFS" vldbs.

This is not strictly true. I have a list of IPv4 addresses for a
fileserver MH record. If I don't care about working with old clients,
that is basically an array of opaque 32-bit values. I can store an IPv6
address in that. (Well, it is true that that won't "work" if you try to
revert to a 'normal' vlserver, of course.)

Come to think of it, you can probably make that work without even having
new RPCs. You wouldn't even have to modify the vlserver; and if you
manually put the stuff in NetInfo yourself, I don't think you'd even
have to modify the fileserver. (that is, besides making the
vlserver/fileserver work with ipv6-rx)

All of that kinda depends on how 'correctly' vs 'one-off kludge' you
would want to do it. But it's possible.

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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net