On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:40:03 EST Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > == 1.6.7 changes pre announcements == > > Last week, we decided to make 1.6.7+ clients give up their callbacks > on shutdown, causing problems for older fileservers in the 1.3.50-1.4.5 > and 1.5.0-1.5.27 ranges, without a knob to turn this off, and that this > should be announced in advance on the -info and -announce lists as well > as at EAKC. It just wasn't defined who will do it, and when. Postponed > to a meeting with Jeffrey present, since it was his proposal. > > Stephan proposes including the planned fileserver change to > -sync=onclose in these announcements.
I'm sorry, but I didn't notice this topic come up before. What problems would be seen when these clients connect/disconnect to those ancient versions of file servers? I'm not asking that the change be skipped, but just wondering what behavior would be seen. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [email protected] Senior Systems Programmer or [email protected] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
