[50] in DCNS Development
NFS --> AFS meeting 7/3/91
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 3 17:00:27 1991
From: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: developers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, release-73@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 16:58:55 EDT
Minutes of the NFS --> AFS conversion meeting, 7/3/91
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There are three task groups that need to be formed to look at three
sides of the issue: Development Issues, User Visible Issues, and
Migration Operations Issues.
Development Issues: Leader: Richard or Mark
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Moira support
Making fs more user friendly
What happens when you type ls -l
Tools for Accounts consultants
Command server so that ^C does not leave things in a strange state
Tools for operation (eg automatic expunge of deleted files)
User Visible Issues: Leader: Carla
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File protection scheme
Hard and soft links
Weekly time out
What happens when you type ls -l
File system limitations (when file > cache size)
Documentation, training, publicity, education, posters
Tools for student consultants - what tools need to be modified or added
Migration Operations Issues: Leader: Anne S.
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Tools needed for migration
Scheduling migration
All three task groups should look at the issues from the perspective
of their own roles and report back on issues and action items to the
larger group at its next meeting, which will be July 17. Discussion
on July 17 and July 24 (open to staff and students) will result in a
joint proposal to be circulated by the end of July.
All three groups should discuss the piece-meal vs. all-at-once issue --
timing, publicity, what group(s) do we encourage to volunteer.
Advantages of piece-meal (voluntary) migration:
Ramping up the operations and consulting tools and practices
Finding user pitfalls
Testing our tools
Learning what we need to document better
Practice for accounts maintenance
Makes sharing of files easier
Helps to build the new stock answers
Disadvantages:
One more piece of information to find out when a user asks a question
A straw poll came out strongly in favor of doing a voluntary
(piece-meal) migration. Mark suggested quiet publicity in the Fall,
more visible publicity as we ramp us, allowing us to control the flow
of requesters to some extent. It was also suggested that at some
point we move people who ask for an increase in disk quota.
There was discussion of building a good X-based directory browser that also would allow for changing of protection in a way that made the type of underlying file system invisible to the user. That might take a long time to write, but would be a good thing to aim for in time for the mass migration.
