[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on MacOS X

[Derek Atkins]

When you stat the mountpoint you attempt to contact the fileserver
with the mounted volume.  This is why 'ls -l /afs' takes so long,
because as you stat() each mountpoint, you have to go off and contact
each cell.

-derek

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@curl.com> writes:

> While I am here, I have a related question.  If I have an AFS volume
> mounted on a mount point, and I stat() it, do I end up talking to the
> file server which hosts the volume?  Or do I just talk to the file
> server for the volume which includes the mount point?  I am trying to
> decide how to lay out an AFS tree, and the presence of Finders and
> Explorers and such means I have to care about this question.
> 
>  - Pat
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