From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 11 10:47:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hal-5.inet.it (hal-5.inet.it [213.92.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3BD37B402 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by hal-5.inet.it (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g2BIlVo364192 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:47:31 +0100 Received: from acampi.inet.it(213.92.1.165) by hal-5.inet.it via I-SMTP-4.0.5-100 id s-213.92.1.165-mYjNgd; Mon Mar 11 19:47:31 2002 Received: by acampi.inet.it (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1802115537; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:47:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:47:30 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Harti Brandt , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <20020311184730.GA6282@webcom.it> References: <4252.1015867433@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4252.1015867433@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:23:53PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Garance A Drosihn writes: > >At 5:22 PM +0100 3/11/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> > >>As I said: "Just because we can doesn't mean we will > >>or should". > > > >Okay. I had misunderstood what you were saying in the > >earlier message. As long as it works for the AFS/ARLA > >case I'll be happy. I get a little uneasy about these > >things, because I expect that very few freebsd'ers work > >in an AFS world, and solutions which will be perfectly > >fine for NFS mounts might have scaling problems when > >used for AFS. > > But you could do me a favour: Write up a piece of text > which gives enough info for somebody like me to setup > and test AFS/ARLA in my lab... Also note that ARLA is probably broken on -current right now. I sent a patch to the arla guys some time ago, but had to stop working on that and now the patch is badly outdated. If anybody wants to pick up the job, I'll be more than happy to send what I have. Bye, andrea > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message