[OpenAFS] Re: openafs does not put a [correct] value in fsinfo.f_type?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Adam Megacz wrote:

>
> Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> writes:
>> #1 - what is the process to get a "real" linux filesystem type number
>> assigned?
>> 	Ask the Linux Standards Committee.
>
> (No such entity)
>
> Actually I think you just make one up and advertise it widely.

And then people who hate you use it for something else and change the 
license on their interface and....

> This won't work for code which must build without dependencies on AFS,
> of which might be built on a non-AFS machine and executed on an
> AFS-client machine (ie for rpm/deb packaging).

Untrue. The kafs library has its on syscall prober thing which doesn't 
depend on AFS and certainly manages to set tokens.

> The question is "[on Linux], how can my code reliably determine if a
> file is stored in AFS without introducing a build-time dependency on
> AFS headers/libraries into my code".
>
> That question has a reasonable answer for SMB, Coda, and NFS; I think
> it would be unfortunate if it didn't have a reasonable answer for AFS.

See above.

>> #3 - how can I tell which kind of locks are truely supported by the (afs)
>> filesystem?
>> 	today?  Or in the future?
>
> Today (TransarcAFS + OpenAFS<=1.4.x).
>
> I have faith that the people doing byte-locking will come up with an
> elegant solution for querying locking capabilities in 1.5 and future
> releases.  I'm mostly worried about what's already out there.

I'm not sure what answer you're looking for, here.