[OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

[Brandon Allbery]

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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> > But is it a partition (that is, a local mountpoint)?  You may need to
> 'touch
> > /vicepa/AlwaysAttach' to force it to use arbitrary directories; this is a
> > bad idea in general.
>
> Why is your suggestion a "bad idea in general"?  Is it less stable?
> Less performant?


Less performant, harder to reason about space usage when something else can
be using the space, potentially harder to recover from filesystem
corruption (although you are likely pretty hosed in that case whether it's
dedicated or not).

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com
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