[OpenAFS-devel] Making supergroups default to on

[Steve Simmons]

On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de> writes:
>=20
>> I agree. Reducing the number of optional features is good, but such a
>> change shouldn't happen in the stable release series - unless there =
are
>> no doubts that it will just work for everyone, and it doesn't =
introduce
>> any compatibility issues. Turning on supergroups by default is very
>> unlikely to happen on 1.6.x from my point of view.
>=20
> Definitely agreed.  This is the sort of thing that should be done for =
a
> major release.

We use and love supergroups here, but I agree - if the default were to =
have changed, it should have been at the 1.6 release. I know it's a bit =
early to talk about 1.8, but if anybody is developing a feature release =
list, supergroups ought to be on it.

For what it's worth, our 1.4.X pts servers have run with significant use =
of supergroups for years without crashing. So at least on Linux, the =
code seems pretty stable.=