On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:26:33 -0500 Kern Sibbald <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2010 17:37:03 Andrew Deason wrote: > > > Should I take this to mean that if I can guarantee contribution to > > the Bacula project, that you'd be willing to talk more about it? > > Yes. Otherwise we would be spending our time on something that would > not be Open Source or benefit the community, or benefit Bacula users. Okay, thanks, just wanted to be clear on what the objection was. > > Or is the Bacula project not interested in tighter AFS integration > > at all? > > Of course we are interested in AFS integration. However, with the > code we currently have, unless you know something we don't about AFS, > which is quite possible, we already have code that does a very tight > integration with AFS. In regular Bacula? Or just the Enterprise Edition? I'm not sure how much you wish to continue talking about this, but since I wasn't aware of this before, you have me curious. If you're backing up AFS by just scanning /afs/ and backing up encountered files as normal files, there are numerous problems. (To just name a few: you cause extra fileserver load, you lose AFS3 ACLs, you risk an endless loop due to recursive mountpoints...) If, on the other hand, you are accessing AFS data using AFS-specific protocols/APIs/etc, I'm not sure how you are doing so. The most-used and stable libraries for doing this are released under an open source GPL-incompatible license (OpenAFS under IPL), so I would assume it's not that. Of course, you could be implementing this by executing command-line AFS administrative tools, but you're slightly limited in functionality. And man, doing that is annoying :) But if you don't want to discuss this stuff, or want to take it off-list, I don't mind. I'm just voicing some curiosity at this point. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
