[OpenAFS-port-darwin] tiger comments

[David Botsch]

The other question revolves around pags... what's the story with these?

thanks.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:21:18PM -0500, Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
> >First question: if one is without network, is the -nomount option (which
> >is still there) still necessary? Or should -fakestat-all let the finder
> >do the right thing and not hang forever?
> -nomount or -dynroot is required if you want to start the client without 
> network.
> 
> >Third: If one attempts to drag the afs icon to the trash, instead of
> >ejecting, a box appears saying "preparing to move one item into the
> >trash". The box stays like this... clicking the cancel button does not
> >appear to do anything. Had to forcibly restart the computer. On a
> >subsequent boot, doing an eject via the eject icon next to the afs icon
> >in a finder window worked just fine.
> It is possible that the umount operation hung. if that happened, it would 
> not be possible to interrupt the thread that attempted the shutdown, which 
> may cause the behavior you saw.
> 
> >Fourth: Computer seems to hang if not ejecting afs on shutdown.
> A fix for this has been committed to CVS and will appear in CVS (shutdown 
> still might hang if a process hangs in afs before the shutdown, but the 
> general "hangs during shutdown" case will be fixed)
> 
> >Seventh: The non-working afssettings... what exactly is that supposed to
> >do, and how does it differ from afsd.options ?
> It allows you to configure whether or not the client lies about file modes. 
> the interface it uses will be supported in -rc5 and it will stop 
> complaining.
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