On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Eitan Adler <ead...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 11:12, Ben Kaduk <minimar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andre, they are used (for better or for worse) in a multi-site
>> database synchronization protocol that currently works portably across
>> operating systems.  Removing them would change the semantics of that
>> protocol in a subtle way that might introduce breakage.
>
> Which one?

OpenAFS.  In particular, the logic to determine the sychronization
site for the ubik databases uses classful addressing.

-Ben
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