[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and windows/unix versioning

[Dave Botsch]

That might be true, however, things like single DES going away (sort of)
as I understand it can break things with older clients.



On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2014, Dave B. wrote:
> 
> >One of our main thoughts is that the version numbers should be
> >indicative of client/server compatibility.
> 
> clients and servers communicate via the AFS-3 network protocol; new
> features (RPCs) are added to that protocol in a backwards-compatible
> manner.  The expectation is that any client version should function
> usefully against any server version; I don't see there being such
> compatibility concerns.
> 
> -Ben
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