On Aug 22, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Horst Birthelmer wrote:
I want to make --enable-namei-fileserver and --enable-largefile-
fileserver
be the default for the BSDs. The inode server isn't really
stable and I
don't see any reason to continue supporting it. And I don't see
any point
in not building with largefile support. I suspect other
platforms are in
the same boat.
Should we make these the default for all platforms, and add
corresponding
--disable-foo options? Do this just for the BSDs?
Well, the AIX servers aren't that stable compiled with largefile
support.
The salvager isn't working properly either.
Shouldn't that code be rather OS independent, or am I missing
something? I can understand if the inode server-related stuff (fsck
etc) goes bananas due to largefiles, but the generic salvager
really should not...
It isn't entirely like that ;-)
I was never able to track down the problem (maybe there are more) on
AIX, but then again I never looked that closely.
I don't think it would be a big deal, but somebody has to debug
and fix that.
(if possible, before we make it the default ;-) )
Making it the default on the platforms that has it tested and
proven stable would be a start, which are those anyway?
I'm not against it ... don't get me wrong. I was just telling, that
there are some issues, where somebody has to look into.
I promised, I would look into those issues but didn't get to it,
since I've been beyond busy the last few month.
It wouldn't be a problem, if we write something like that into the
release documentation, so that people on some platforms disable
'dangerous' features.
Horst
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