[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

[Derrick Brashear]

You're correct. The state, for example, inUse is tracked differently

Derrick


On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Deason  
> <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> My current feeling is that it would be great if we could ship both
>>> fileservers, side by side, with different executable names - but I
>>> haven't looked at any of the code to see how complex this would be  
>>> to
>>> achieve.
>>
>> I haven't actually tried this... but at least from the perspective of
>> the end result binaries, this seems simple. (the build process will  
>> be
>> annoyingly longer, though, at least).
>>
>> 1.5 bosserver always understands the 'fs' and 'dafs' bnodes, I'm  
>> pretty
>> sure, regardless of whether DAFS is enabled or not. So you can have  
>> an
>> 'fs' bnode pointing at the non-DAFS binaries, and a 'dafs' bnode
>> pointing at the DAFS ones. You should be able to switch between  
>> DAFS and
>> non-DAFS just by stopping and starting the fs and dafs bnodes.
>>
>
> A caveat here is the set of volserver, salvager, and salvageserver
> binaries: you need different ones for DAFS than for non-DAFS (iirc --
> it's been a few years since I looked at that code).  That's not a
> problem, of course; I'm just pointing that out as some may not be
> aware of that.  Andrew, Tom,etc, if that's  not the case now, feel
> free to clarify.
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
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