[1034] in Moira
Re: chowning a volume to a gid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Dec 11 21:26:16 1996
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, afsdev@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:11:28 EST."
<199612120211.VAA19250@badger.lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:21:59 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I sent mail about this at 4am this morning which should have resolved
the issue, but unfortunately it hasn't been delivered yet. Sigh.
> Quite simply, you have two ways of making the change...
> 1. Extend the AFS pioctl interface (in the cache manager, and primarily
> used by the 'fs' program).
> 2. Write your own syscall and kernel loadable module that does the chown
> without the bounds checking.
I finished doing #2 within four hours of Jonathon's initial mail.
It's distinctly preferable to building our own cache manager right
now.
> I suggest #1, but I strongly suggest leaning heavily on Transarc to
> make the change. While I may have suggested it to them many years
> ago, leaning on them was not a priority for me because of Athena's
> many alternatives at the time.
I have already sent a problem report to Transarc. We'll see what they
say. They've been mighty unresponsive to my problem reports so far.
