[13930] in Athena Bugs
Re: vos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Oct 17 14:25:50 1995
To: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU, miki@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, afsdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:16:07 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:25:41 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> 1. What is the reason for desiring this? Do we have AFS administrators
>> who only have an SGI available?
I don't know about afs admins, but there is popular program in the
conult locker, "lastlog", which uses vos. Many users ask why vos
doesn't work.
In addition, vos is also useful for helping users. They might want to
know, for instance, when their last backup volume was created. vos is
the only way to do this.
>> 2. Do you simply want access to the Transarc vos release? We have not
>> tested it and given current resource allocations it is NOT likely to happen
>> soon. However, it is available in /mit/afsdev/dist/sgi_52/etc/
>> if you want to take your chances with it.
This would be adequate, and I do this. Unfortunately, very few users
or even consultants know to do this.
>> 3. Given the special purpose usage of the SGI, is there a clear reason
>> for desiring vos on this platform? Remember that these are not general
>> purpose Athena workstations.
Because users treat it as a general purpose platform, regardless of
its intent. Walk through the w20 cluster someday and count the number
of users running sgi-specific software. It will usually be small.
Marc
