[1206] in Moira
Re: Wacky suggestion: expiration dates on mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Oct 22 15:12:44 1998
To: "Michael L. Barrow" <michael@mlbarrow.com>
Cc: "Jeremy H. Brown" <jhbrown@ai.mit.edu>, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 05:39:12 -0700 ."
<362F2770.260D93E3@mlbarrow.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:11:24 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
Someone else followed up on this, but..
> What happens now if you delete a list that owns stuff in AFS-land? Does
> moira juat punt it and leave the AFS-protected files as orphans?
Acl entries are in terms of protection database id's, which are small
integers which eventually get recycled. It's worse than orphans; the
files can get "adopted" when the prdb id gets recycled.. :-)
(it sounds like the "Janitor" takes care of cleaning this stuff up,
though..)
- Bill
