On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 12:04:04PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:43 AM Harald Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > However is it still "safe" and "advised" (outside of these > > > disadvantages) to run the old `fileserver` component? > > > > I would recommend everyone to migrate to "da" and not recommend to > > start with anything old. For obvious reasons, all the big > > installations will migrate to "da" and you don't want to run another > > codebase, don't you? > > > Thanks Harald for the feedback. > > This is exactly what I wanted to find out, namely if the `fileserver` > and `dafileserver` have different code bases. (And you've confirmed > my hunch that the DAFS codebase is the currently maintained one.)
To be clear, they do share a great bit of code (dafs was not "from scratch"), but there are many places that do get differential treatment in the source -- look for AFS_DEMAND_ATTACH_FS preprocessor conditionals. -Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
