[OpenAFS] key issues for OpenAFS future?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Tim C wrote:

> > As far i know you cant turn on logging on your /vice - partitions on
> > solaris if dont want things to break. You say it works now ? Do i have to
> > run namei-filerserver then ?
> >
>   I'd appriciate it if someone could clairify this.  In looking through the
> responces to this message, I saw two opposite responces.  One saying that
> you can use ufs with logging as a /vice partition on solaris, and one that
> said that you couldn't(assuming that you turned on iname).

You can't. I think you could if we got fsck source and patched it.

> > I am sure you cant run your /vice-partitions on AdvFS on Tru64, which
> sucks
> > pretty much.
> >
> > I dont think we support /vice in XFS on IRIX either, or i am wrong ?
> >
>   Boy I hope so. :^}  Transarc was supporting xfs on irix(as much as anyone
> ever supports irix ;), and we've been using it since around 3.4a or 3.5 into
> openafs 1.2.6 currently.  This is without the iname stuff.  We're also
> running linux with xfs on the /vice partitions without namei.

It's EFS we don't support.

>   In responce to this email, it sounds like a web page on openafs.org would
> be highly recomended which could go through the OSes, and the filesystems,
> and different configurations, stating "supported for /vice with or without
> iname", "supported for /vice without iname"(assumed to be with as well
> right?), "supported for cache", and also "unsupported" and "untested".  You
> could break the tables up into the OSes, then have the FSes on the left, and
> the levels of support on the top. Perhaps even have in the boxes an "as of
> version  x.x.x" if appropriate.

Who wants to write it? Seriously, someone should send one in.

>   Then this page could be updated as things change.  It just seems like
> we're using this mailing list as an "official source" and everything, but
> since there's nothing on the web page, 5 million people keep coming on the
> list and asking, then we get mad when they do. :^}  (not just this thread,
> but also the redhat kernel bug ;)

You're right, but it's also somewhat hard to be sympathetic in cases where
a Google search with "I feel lucky" turns up the answer.