On Mar 25, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> david l goodrich <[email protected]> writes: > >> Running your servers without the client is (at the last time I checked) >> recommended. > > I don't know that I would go so far as to say recommended. Not having the > client installed does ensure that you don't have any accidental AFS > dependencies, but as long as you know what you're doing and don't > introduce any, having the AFS client running on the AFS servers is useful > for exactly the same reason that having it running on any other server is > useful. Without meaning to insult the average system administrator, installing AFS client on the servers is a recipe for creeping disaster. It works fine for a year, then a new guy takes over who doesn't really understand AFS, and that person adds more AFS dependencies, lather, rinse, repeat. One day he reboots the file servers and they don't come up. As one who has had to repair the disaster that ensued on such a cycle, no amount of work savings is worth the loss of user access to files that ensues. Not to mention the time and effort required to a) get the server back up and b) find and remove all the dependencies six generations of sysadmins introduced._______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
