[OpenAFS-devel] Making supergroups default to on

[Stephan Wiesand]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 16:23 , Steve Simmons <scs@umich.edu> wrote:

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> On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de> writes:
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>>> 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.
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>> Definitely agreed.  This is the sort of thing that should be done for =
a
>> major release.
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> 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.
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> 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.

Were they amd64?

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Stephan Wiesand
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