[OpenAFS-devel] proposal: removing mac prefs pane

[Dave Botsch]

Hi, Jeff.

We can certainly move the pref pane portion over to openafs-info.

See below...


> The OSX client has a couple of huge holes in it at the moment:
> 
> 1. The packaging is no longer current for Xcode that supports
>    Mavericks or Yosemite.
> 

Can you clarify what you mean? As far as I know, the only thing required
to build is an old packagebuilder script.

> 2. Parts of the pref pane functionality no longer work because
>    of changes in Mavericks and Yosemite.
> 

The preference pane, to my knowledge, has never worked for cross realm
authentication. So, that also needs to be fixed to call it "working".

> 3. There is no support for Bulk Status RPCs which cause the
>    OSX client (especially when used through Finder) to be
>    extremely slow when evaluating directories with large
>    numbers of entries over high latency links.
> 
>    This same lack of support for Bulk Status RPCs also triggers
>    the file server throttling of clients when many of the objects
>    in the directory are unreadable by the user.

Interesting. What would you consider "large numbers" out of curiosity?
Is there a plan to fix this?

> 
> 4. There is no support for PAGs.
> 

Always been that way. PAGs have their plusses and minuses (on our SunRay
linux systems, I've actually disabled PAGs since certain processes get
stuck in PAGs without authN).

> 5. Code signing for the installer, the userland binaries and
>    the kernel extension are necessary for improved firewall
>    access and installation behavior.

Yeah, this sucks. It is workable aroundable pretty easily, but not
something we want the end user to have to do.

> 
> Of these, the easiest to address is fixing the Preference Pane.
> 

Is there a plan in place to fix this? It'd be nice to have this fully
working :)



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