On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:47, Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> wrote:
>> c) Just state that 1.4.5 is "too old" to bother > > possibly that being today. While I tend to be of the opinion that at some point you just have to throw away the bath water (regardless of the baby squid that has been living in it for a few years, and has now grown into a full fledged unmanaged monster). The problem for this case is that use of the RPC will crash the server. And it seems likely that if a site is still running older servers it means that site is not actively managing (and by that I mean managing at all) their infrastructure. An OpenAFS server that crashes (repeatedly) may be an excuse for someone to just blame OpenAFS for being a POS, remove it from their environment, and bad mouth it. I do not think we want that, even though I would be tempted to just have calamari and call it a day. I think the only pragmatic solution is to hold ones nose and use the "implied" capability by checking for the other (GetStatistics64) RPC. And vow that this is the absolute last time (until the next time :-). And, for this type of problem, we actually have a plan for the future with the capabilities RPC. Gary _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
