On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Alistair Ferguson <alistair.fergu...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >>>> Since, as you note, there are sites which actually do rely on this, are >>>> you in fact meaning to say that the option would exist, but not be >>>> mentioned >>>> in the usage? I guess I'd also like to hear from Steven on pthreaded-ubik. >>>> It appears that it actually isn't 100% stable, but is close, and >>>> apparently >>>> it's issue(s) are difficult to provoke. >>>> >>> >>> What we have in the code base definitely has bugs; Are there fixes >>> which have not made it back upstream? >>> >> >> Not significant fixes, no, but there are some minor ones. >> >> At the moment, I know of no one interested in running pthreaded ubik, >> > > Really ? Then you haven't been paying attention ;) >
Let's see..this mailbox has no mention of anyone wanting it since I mentioned it to Jason as something I was working on in the summer...neither does that mailbox...nor does that RT queue...nor this or that mailing list..nor.... As far as I can tell, Jason is the only one expressing any interest in the past 8 months or so..and that was only for the monthly newsletter. So I guess I haven't been paying attention. :) > >> so there's a bit of chicken and egg -- i.e., I know what fixes need to >> be done, but need some people willing to run it and give a green light >> on it (or to kick me and tell me it's still broken). And I'd need to >> carve out some time to work on it. >> > > AFAIK the major bug (the VL DB server handing clients incorrect file-servers > addresses causing them to lose access to volumes) hasn't been resolved ? > > Correct. (Long, boring description with lots of details deleted -- if someone wants those details, let me know). Steven _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info