[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: Thinking about 1.6

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:09:46 -0500


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Chaz Chandler <clc31@inbox.com> wrote:
>>> Making it the default behavior might be OK, provided we add code to
>>> make the fileserver recognize a vice partition containing existing
>>> inode volumes and refuse to start.
>
> Speaking of which, might now be the time to suggest that 1.6 default to
> namei on IRIX? =A0Especially since inode is very broken (at least in 1.4,
> haven't tested 1.5 yet) on IRIX and the change is more or less
> stupid-proof, as already mentioned:
>
>> VCheckPartition already does it.

I stand by that it's broken depending on which 6.5 you have, but yes,
for the same reason we switched on Solaris 9 and later, we should do
it here.

--=20
Derrick