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Re: New pyhesiodfs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Sat Jan 24 03:47:49 2009

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:46:58 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 03:02:06AM -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> Greg Price wrote:
> > "for manipulating read-write AFS volumes" isn't quite right, since
> > read-write volumes are the common case and the complication comes when
> > read-only volumes enter in.  Perhaps "replicated AFS volumes".
> 
> I think you've got your terminology a bit confused, but "replicated AFS
> volumes" is a fine way of expressing it; changed.

Shrug.  From zephyr discussion it sounds like we have no difference in
terminology.


> > You might consider also putting more or less this explanation either
> > on http://debathena or in a man page or somesuch and mentioning it
> > here, so that people can be pointed to it later.
> 
> A manpage would be a good idea. My last experience writing manpages was
> a bit scarring, so for the time being I'm going to say that that's on my
> todo list.

Yeah, http://debathena might be easier than a man page.  A new bullet
in http://debathena.mit.edu/athena-differences, perhaps following the
one about the automounter, might be the right place.

Greg

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