Re: Should "fs trace" default to OFF in the 1.4 client?

Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, I would like your opinion.   The 1.4 client is very stable.
> For the last 18 months I have defaulted the internal debugging of
> the AFS client to be "on".  (fs trace -on)
>
> I have done this because there were frequently problems found
> including crashes, deadlocks, etc. that required access to the log
> data.
>
> Now that things are much better, I am wondering if perhaps the release
> (non-Debug) distributions should default to trace logging being "off".
> This would reduce the memory footprint and improve performance.

This can be easily turned back on with a fs trace -on comamnd at any
time, right?  If so, I see no problem with this.

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Christopher D. Clausen
ACM@UIUC SysAdmin