Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2009, at 22:26, Alf Wachsmann wrote: >> I would like to open the discussion about these changes since they >> will have to be dealt with for the RXOSD changes anyway but provide >> by themselves already a very useful feature. > > Rather than overloading existing fields (especially in the case of > returning two values bitpacked into MinQuota), I think it's more > valuable to consider the RPC changes necessary to support this as a > first class feature. Fortunately, this would appear to be relatively > simple. We would need to to revise GetVolumeStatus and > SetVolumeStatus, and the structures AFSFetchVolumeStatus, and > AFSStoreVolumeStatus. > > I will leave others to speak to the desirability of using the MinQuota > portion of the volume header - I've got no idea how widespread other > uses for this field may be. > > Cheers, > > Simon. While I am not opposed to the feature, I am opposed to overloading existing fields. The required changes necessary to implement new RPCs are minor and will provide a much better user experience when the set volume status operation fails with a "not supported by server" error instead of silently failing.
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