Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] persistent DIDs - half-baked or totally baked?
From: Palle Girgensohn (girgen@partitur.se)
Date: Sat May 02 1998 - 10:47:23 EDT
Andras Kadinger wrote:
>
> 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.
Seems like a correct decision.
Regards,
Palle
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