[OpenAFS] Re: Thinking about a different way to distribute configuration.

[Jeffrey Altman]

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David Boyes wrote:
> I suspect we're disagreeing more on what "better" means here than anything
> else. I find most configuration files incredibly crude and static. There are
> other ways to think about this, and much of the current command line options
> are there to cope with the fact that there is no self-tuning capability in
> AFS. If I were developing additions, I'd be looking to eliminate that
> problem, rather than finding new ways to express a lot of static
> limitations.

The long term direction is absolutely to make things more self-tuning.
Getting there is going to take a long time.  In the meantime we have
been asked to accept patches which take some of the existing hard coded
configuration parameters and provide alternates.  I do not wish to us
replace one set of hard coded configuration with another.  Especially
when I know that more than one organization has internally patched those
values to better tune the AFS servers for their environment.  I also
would prefer that those sites be able to use our standard binary
distributions.  As such there needs to be someplace to specify the
alternative values.



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