[OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:16:40 +0000


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
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> We have AFS clients on all of our servers, including the AFS servers, and
> avoid unintentional dependencies on AFS (for all services) by just being
> careful.

While I trust you to be careful (and I would trust myself to be careful :-),
I have seen cases where the dependency graph is not complete (or
not understood by the new guy), resulting in interesting results.  That
said, I would normally run the AFS client on all servers, although it
is not needed.

Gary