[OpenAFS-devel] semantics of stat'ing a mount point

[Derek Atkins]

It would be useful in the case of dynamic cell insertion to
differentiate between "unknown cell" and "unknown volume".  So,
I say keep it how it is.

-derek

Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> In previous AFS versions, stat'ing an AFS mount point returns ENODEV for
> an unknown volume, but ENOENT if the mount point is for an unknown cell.
> 
> A patch proposes to change that to consistently return ENODEV. Is anyone
> relying on the distinction? Cases could be made for
> -ENOENT represents a missing entry in the CellServDB for the cell
> -mount points should be treated like dangling symlinks and always return
> ENOENT when invalid
> 
> The latter would be a considerable semantic change, though.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
> 
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