[OpenAFS] Feature request, sort of

[Steve Simmons]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Except that the new volume should be "special" in that no changes are
> permitted.  In other words, the "wida" permissions are neutered on  
> this
> volume.  Since the new volume type doesn't exist, modifying the  
> ACLs is
> something that has the same effect that you can do today.

Exactly. I'd not thought of the acls issues, but yes, they should be  
invariant if possible.

I suppose this brings up some other issues as well. For example,  
would we want a -readonly flag for 'vos copy' so one could make an  
invariant copy of an existing volume? I can see some use for that.  
And I suppose we'd want 'vos convertROtoRW' to work as well.

Since '.readonly' has such a strong association with replicant  
volumes, perhaps we should refer to this new type as an invariant  
volume. The different terminology will prevent a lot of confusion.

Steve