[422] in Moira
re: registration issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Mon Jun 29 13:02:20 1992
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>, moiradev@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: Jerome H Saltzer <Saltzer@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 27 Jun 92 15:31:26 EDT From Marc Horowitz <marc@athena.mit.edu> <9206271931.AA18738@m1-115-4>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 10:01:38 -0700
> Since the registration seems to block on the AFS volume creation, and the
> database is single threaded, things go very slowly. There are right now
> about five people trying to register all the students (they decided on
> "standardized" usernames - not my choice), and it is taking a *long* time.
How about creating (e.g., over the summer on long, hot, holiday weekends)
1100 volumes with names "unassigned0001" ... "unassigned1100" and then
just renaming them at the actual instant of registration?
Jerry
