[OpenAFS-devel] Soft mounts for /afs root

[Derek Atkins]

David Thompson <thomas@cs.wisc.edu> writes:

> RO/RW mappings should be explicit, not based on names of mount points.  
> Standards between sites vary too much.

Oh?  How many sites _don't_ use the convention of:
	/afs/<cell>	<- RO mountpoint
	/afs/.<cell>	<- RW mountpoint

Are there other programatical conventions?  If you don't use the
above convention at your site, what do you do?

Keep in mind that with AFSDB support we need a programatical way to
reach both the RO and RW copy of root.cell.  Note that this is a
client matter, not a system matter.  I have no objection to
programming a set of different client-side conventions and allowing
the client administrator to choose which convention to use.

Note: there are two threads here that are related but separate:
	a) /afs automount access to RO and RW root.cell volumes
	b) alias shortcuts to both the RO and RW volume mountpoints

-derek

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