[OpenAFS] Disconnected OpenAFS

[Matt Benjamin]

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Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
> Some work has been done on integrating UNIX read-only disconnected mode
> onto the CVS HEAD.

Since Simon Wilkinson has apparently made progress with merging the CITI
disconnected AFS patches with OpenAFS, I thought that was the direction
for disconnected operation?  Are you talking about the same effort?

> 
> The hard part about disconnected operation is not what happens in the
> cache manager but the user interface that must go with it so that users
> can determine what data should be available in the cache when the client
> goes off-line and how collisions should be resolved when the client is
> back on-line and the data on the server has been changed.

That issue is addressed in the CITI disconnected AFS, at least for the
command line.

> 
> There are also issues surrounding file locks that must be resolved.

One has to start somewhere...

Matt

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