[3134] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Need to know if migration to Netscape 6 is feasible.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Tue Feb 12 20:51:10 2002
Message-Id: <200202130151.UAA03049@pepsi-one.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:51:08 -0500
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
> > If so, will deploying Open AFS with dynroot be
> > feasible?
>
> Right now, we plan to deploy openafs with dynroot on Solaris and Linux
> for Athena 9.1. There are no technical obstacles I know of to deploying
> it on IRIX, but we would really like to not touch anything close to the
> IRIX kernel if at all possible.
I don't think that dynroot, as it currently exists in OpenAFS, would
solve the problem of stat'ing /afs, since all cells in CellServDB are
mounted in the dynroot volume by default. It's probably not too hard
to change this behavior (perhaps to something more closely resembling
an automounter), but it would be noticeably different from the way
things work right now.
(The right solution is to implement mountpoint fakestat in OpenAFS,
but I've been lame and still haven't done so..)
-- kolya
