[OpenAFS-devel] bos superusers and pts extended names

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, 9 May 2013, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On 5/9/13 14:50 , "Benjamin Kaduk" <kaduk@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 May 2013, Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>
>>> Designed in 2007. Unfortunately, and the reason there is no
>>> implementation
>>> already contributed: if you do, you can rapidly fill your database.
>>> Remember that ubik
>>> is limited in overall database size due to the addressing of blocks.
>>
>> Jabber discussion reveals that these design docs were hosted on
>> www.afsig.se, the content on which has since disappeared.
>> Even if the old design does have critical flaws, I would still be
>> interested in looking at it to get some sense of what the motivation for
>> design tradeoffs were.  Does anyone have local copies of these documents
>> that they could share?
>
> The Wayback Machine appears to have snapshots from 2007. Would
> http://web.archive.org/web/20061009074046/http://www.afsig.se/afsig/space/p
> rdb+extensions be what you're after here?

Huh, I did check the wayback machine but apparently not for the right 
paths, since I didn't appear to see anything at all for afsig.se.
This 2006 entry may not be new enough, though -- the final extended names 
spec also provides for an extension to 64-bit IDs, and this format is 
using 32-bit IDs, still.

-Ben