[OpenAFS-devel] Callbacks on shutdown -- release-team minutes 2014-02-12

[Stephan Wiesand]

According to my information:

On Feb 20, 2014, at 20:21 , drosih@rpi.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:25:14 EST drosih@rpi.edu wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:40:03 EST Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>>> 
>>> == 1.6.7 changes pre announcements ==
>>> 
>>> Last week, we decided to make 1.6.7+ clients give up their callbacks
>>> on shutdown, causing problems for older fileservers in the 1.3.50-1.4.5
>>> and 1.5.0-1.5.27 ranges, without a knob to turn this off, and that this
>>> should be announced in advance on the -info and -announce lists as well
>>> as at EAKC. It just wasn't defined who will do it, and when. Postponed
>>> to a meeting with Jeffrey present, since it was his proposal.
> 
> And let me ask one more question to make sure I understand this right.
> The issue is with fileservers only, and not with database servers, right?

Right.

> So if our fileservers are running (say) 1.4.7, then we should be okay,
> even if our AFS database servers are an older version?


Yes.

-- Stephan