[OpenAFS] sysname for 3.x linux kernel

[Dave Botsch]

I just set the sysname to whatever I want it to be. Cfengine sticks a
"/usr/bin/fs sysname -newsys" command in the /etc/init.d/openafs-client
script in the startup) section



On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:44:28PM -0500, Dan Scott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running into a small annoyance managing our OpenAFS files with the
> most recent kernels (3.X). When I was running a 2.6 kernel, the
> sysname didn't change very often and I didn't need to perform much
> maintenance on my software installation volume. Recently, some
> workstations have started using the 3.1 and 3.2 kernels and I've had
> to create a lot of symlinks so that the @sys directories resolve
> correctly. I'll have to do this whenever a new kernel version is
> released.
> 
> Is there a way to have a 'fallback' directory for @sys? i.e. If
> amd64_linux32 doesn't exist, then it should use the amd64_linux31
> directory instead. Or maybe we can have a amd64_linux3 sysname for all
> 3.x linux kernels?
> 
> I can see the advantages of having different names for 2.4,2.6 and 3.
> kernels, but do we really need a new sysname every 3 months or so?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
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