Re: [OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Keiser
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Steve Simmons wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: >>> >>> The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the >>> namei fileserver. >>> What is the reaso

Re: [OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Anders Magnusson wrote: > I have an interest in creating arbitrary numbers of clones, therefore > the question. Support for arbitrary numbers of snapshots will require a replacement for the file system back-end. Accessing those snapshots from client systems (for example to provide Time Machine s

Re: [OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-11-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Steve Simmons wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: >>> The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using >>> the >>> namei fileserver. >>> What is the reason for this limitation? >> >> The

Re: [OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Simmons
On Oct 31, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the namei fileserver. What is the reason for this limitation? The implementation uses only 3 bits (1 + 2 + 4

Re: [OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-10-31 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: > The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the > namei fileserver. > What is the reason for this limitation? The implementation uses only 3 bits (1 + 2 + 4 = 7) Given that in a classic fileserver, RW, RO, BK, t

[OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-10-31 Thread Anders Magnusson
The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the namei fileserver. What is the reason for this limitation? -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info