[OpenAFS-devel] openafs cell and contrib area?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:18:58PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Love <lha@stacken.kth.se> writes:
> 
> > Generate a root.afs by interating over CellServDB and add new cells when
> > found by dns. Then a solution that avoids that stat()ing a mountpoint
> > causes a rpc to remote cell.
> 
> This doesn't let you easily create shortcuts..  For example, I like
> being able to access /afs/athena, /afs/sipb, /afs/dev, and other MIT
> shorthands.  Obviously these are finger macros, but they are
> convenient.
> 
> In theory I do like this idea -- perhaps we can also add a "list of
> known short-hands" that one could use?

To reply to an old thread... if we use "found by DNS", and you have the
appropriate search path, "athena" should resolve to "athena.mit.edu"
anyway, right?

Dan

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