There are several proposals on the table for additional features that
require new configuration capabilities. I believe that it is time
that
OpenAFS adopt a configuration file format and library.
I think I could deal with *anything* that isn't XML. ;) In fact,
massive amounts of command line flags aren't too bad to deal with.
However, if our intent is, in the long term, to allow updating of
configuration options without a server restart, then we certainly
should move to a config file format. Both INI and the kerberos config
format would do well for this -- Kerberos does allow for some idea of
inheritance & overrides, which may be desirable -- and it's got the
multi-realm concept which could play nice for sites that are multi-
cell and wish to maintain one configuration file that they push out to
all of their servers & clients.
-rob
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