[OpenAFS] Mount points for .backup volumes

[Charles Karney]

 > From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
 > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:17:52 -0400
 > 
 > > On the windows client, a colleague was also faced with a directory listing
 > > along the lines of
 > > 
 > >     \.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\...
 > 
 > This certainly seems like a bug in the windows client -- the unix
 > cache manager refuses to evaluate a backup volume mountpoint in
 > a backup volume, returning ELOOP.

Actually, I may be muddling up another misfeature of the Windows
interface.  I put a circular link (equivalent to foo -> ..) in someones
directory and this sent the Windows client (maybe find files) into an
apparent loop since Windows can't distinguish links from the real thing.

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