[OpenAFS] openafs and loop device on linux

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Nathan Rawling wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm not attempting to make work for anyone, or even just complaining. 
> > 
> > I am curious, however. Is there any compelling reason that fileserver
> > partitions really need to be named "/vicep??"? Is there some sort of an
> > alpha->numeric mapping in the code somewhere that requires this?
> > 
> > Or, is this one of those "conventions" that pop up every once in a while
> > that live past their usefulness (like /usr filesystems)?
> 
> It's certainly able to be modified but only with care. Briefly a patch in
> CVS caused the namei fileserver to attempt to attach any directory found
> at the top level with a file named AlwaysAttach in it. Well, in order for
> this approach to work you need a config file, otherwise you might end up
> looking in an automounter-served directory, or worse in /afs for such a
> file.
> 
> Easier to enforce a namespace so you have to actually try to hose
> yourself.

However, Nathan's original guess is also correct.  Fileserver partitions
are referred to on the wire by number, not by name.  So you won't get
clients like 'vos' to recognize other names.