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

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:42:48 -0700


"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:

>> I definitely agree that this is where we should go.  I don't think
>> we're quite ready to be there right now, unless you feel that we should
>> enable supergroups by default.  :)  (I can't reasonably turn it off in
>> the Debian packages, where it's been enabled for quite some time,
>> without causing obvious serious problems.)

> what would be a good reason for not enabling by default?  no one is
> forcing use to use supergroups even if the support is turned on.

The code is dire verging on unsupportable and really needs to be
rewritten.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>