[OpenAFS] Evaluating OpenAFS

[Hugo Monteiro]

On 05/17/2011 10:56 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hugo Monteiro<hugo.monteiro@fct.unl.pt>  writes:
>> On 05/17/2011 08:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> Stephan Wiesand<stephan.wiesand@desy.de>   writes:
>>>> Ok, I concur.  Could someone confirm that this bug is not present in
>>>> 1.6.0preX where X<  5 ?
>>> That's correct.  It was introduced in pre5.
>> Hrm.. just to make sure i'm not about to open a can of worms.. That bug
>> is a server side bug, correct? I'm asking because we are about to deploy
>> openafs client>  pre5, while using 1.4.12 server shipped with debian
>> squeeze.
> No, it's a client bug.  You don't want to use pre5 on Linux as a client,
> since it can't correctly retrieve files larger than your chunk size.  The
> current 1.6 branch in the Git repository is fine, I believe, as is pre5
> with the patch mentioned earlier, or the current Debian unstable packages.
>

Ok, i forgot to mention that the pre5 clients i was talking about are 
windows clients. I'm then, i assume.

Regards,

Hugo Monteiro.

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