[OpenAFS-devel] Re: kabi-tracking kmods

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:45:40 -0400
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> why not just use rmtsysd functionality in afsd.fuse and then there's
>> no extra code at all (other than making rmtsysd call the right piece
>> of libuafs)?
>>
>> that had been my thought but i never got around to looking at it. the
>> clients tho would all already dtrt once AFSSERVER was set.
>
> Yeah, previous discussions usually involved using that at least in some
> way. Using it as-is I thought had the problem that you could only run
> one, on a predefined port. Or if you can run multiple ones on any port,
> how do you know which one corresponds to the AFS mount you want?
>
> I just thought using a unix socket would be easier for that (I thought
> that was your idea from eakc, but I may be confusing things).

I certainly talked about it, but the problem then is you can't use binaries
that are already deployed. If that's not an issue (and for some folks
it's not) it's probably the best plan.

> But it
> could also sorta work to just assume there's only one, or just have a
> magic file that said what localhost port to use or something.
>
> Also note that rmtsysd I believe is ifdef'd out in the ukernel afsd
> stuff, since last time I looked at it I think it wasn't compiling for
> some reason. Assuming it still doesn't work out of the box, that's
> another thing someone's going to need to look at to get this working.



-- 
Derrick