On Monday, August 15, 2005 05:15:21 PM -0400 Jim Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'll admit I haven't been paying attention to the pthread file and vol servers. Are they considered stable? Preferable? Why do we build both the lwp and pthread servers?
The pthread fileserver has been available for a very long time, like since before OpenAFS. It is quite stable, and generally performs considerably better than the LWP-based version.
The pthread volserver is quite a bit more recent, and I don't really know how stable it is yet. I guess that depends on how many people are using it.
The LWP versions of these packages are always built; the pthread versions are built only on platforms where they are supported. In general, the pthread versions are installed when they are supported, and the LWP versions otherwise, though the install rules in the Makefile.in in each directory should be consulted for the exact patterns.
The reason that we build both directories on pthread platforms is because the tviced and tvolser directories build only the pthread-using versions of the actual server programs. Other support files are always built and installed as part of the viced and volser directories. This is particularly important in the case of the volser directory, which contains a library (libvolser.a) which must be built to use LWP, as well as several programs which link against that library.
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