At 1:26 AM -0500 12/3/05, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
What I am reading in this thread is that people are afraid of the unknown.
<humor> No, I am afraid of my user community. They are a known quantity, and I know I have reason to be afraid... They vary greatly in what they use AFS for, and in how much they know about the computer technology they are using. So what will be a great new feature for one set of users, will be a traumatic nightmare for a different set. And that's just the people in *my* user community. </humor>
When I speak to those that are contributing resources to further the development of OpenAFS, the things I am told would encourage them...
<aside> So far this year, I personally have donated $350 to OpenAFS via the usenix page (split between March 13th and Sept 2nd). While my own personal interest is more towards MacOS and the BSD's, from RPI's perspective the recent improvements in Windows support are very very much appreciated. The better OpenAFS can support Windows, the more viable it is as a standard file system for all our users. </aside>
I will be more than happy to add the desired switch to disable the functionality if the consensus is that it is required ...
I read your entire message, but to get to the heart of the matter: Yes. I (for one) would like this switch. I could write a few thousand lines to explain on why it would be useful in my environment, but I doubt you really need to read that much today. Either count "my vote", or don't count it. Either way, I do appreciate you making this offer to add the switch. It's particularly nice that you're more than happy to make the offer. I'll now sit back and see what other people vote. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
