[OpenAFS-devel] what are ~/.AFSSERVER and /.AFSSERVER?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:30:38 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> What are these files that are trying to be opened? 
> 
> From looking at the source, it appears it has something to do with the
> rmtsysc service for nfs-afs-translator... why are these files being accessed
> on a regular client? I'm not sure how much activity is happening from those
> accesses, but if they are frequent, it seems like some things could probably
> be sped up quite a bit by reworking whatever is triggering that access. 
> 
> In the strace case I just saw it in, I was stracing a 'fs lsm'.

anything which calls a pioctl. i have patches which I think are also from
Dan Lovinger which effectively disable the remote syscall interface stuff
as a compile-time option; I should dust them off.

-D