[OpenAFS] access 2 different cells from one workstation

[Chris Huebsch]

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Ron Croonenberg wrote:

> (So on the workstation  on /afs both csc and afs-1 are mounted
> and when I look at /afs I would see :
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6  2001 .csc.depauw.edu
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6  2001 csc.depauw.edu
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6  2001 .afs-1.csc.depauw.edu
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6  2001 afs-1.csc.depauw.edu
>
> I tried to change the config files by added another entry in the
> CellServDB, but then what ?  (when I "mess" with the ThisCell file it
> only takes the first one)

If you use the "-dynroot" option to afsd, it populates /afs/ with the
content of CellServDB automatically by "mounting" each cells root.cell
to the appropriate locations. It will no longer use root.afs of the
$ThisCell.

(Using -fakestat may save you some traffic too.)


Chris
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