On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:04:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there any reason (other than that nobody's done it yet) that > > libafs.ko couldn't spawn afsd itself when needed (ie when /afs gets > > mounted)? > > > This would (IMHO) eliminate the need for a lot of > > distribution-specific /etc/init.d stuff. Default afsd options could > > be compiled into the kernel and overridden with bootprompt parameters > > or "echo [options] > /proc/afs/afsd_options". > > Honestly, I like the current method of passing options to the kernel > better. I'm not sure how this would eliminate the need for a lot of > distribution-specific /etc/init.d stuff; most of the cruft in the init > script revolves around loading the kernel module and setting the options, > and both would still be needed regardless of what mechanism you want to > use to pass the options to the kernel.
Frankly, the /etc/init.d scripts are crap, and should be thrown away and re-written from scratch, ideally with some in-line docs on tuning parameters. Loading the module should consist of 'modprobe openafs', not the several hacks there of are looking in several different places. And no, I don't have time to re-write them, I'm just being a whiner right now. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
