Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] persistent DIDs - half-baked or totally baked?
From: Andras Kadinger (bandit@freeside.elte.hu)
Date: Thu Apr 30 1998 - 23:26:20 EDT
Hi Palle,
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Just FYI:
>
> One way to implement persistent DIDs has been around for years and is
> available with the CAP appletalk package. There is a separate daemon
> that cap calls when needed. How the daemon keeps track of the DIDs I
> don't know, but it worked. As for performance, I'm not sure. CAP is
> slower than netatalk even without the extra daemon.
We decided not to use an external daemon, because there are installations,
where one file repository is mounted by multiple machines over NFS, and
then those machines serve it out through AFP. An external daemon in this
case would not be feasible, because the daemons (one on each host serving
out through AFP) would need to communicate between each other; that would
need another protocol, and this didn't seem to be feasible to implement
right now.
Sincerely,
Andras Kadinger
bandit@freeside.elte.hu
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