[OpenAFS-devel] what are ~/.AFSSERVER and /.AFSSERVER?

[aeneous@speakeasy.org]

> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> 
> > What are these files that are trying to be opened? 
> > 
> > From looking at the source, it appears it has something to do with the
> > rmtsysc service for nfs-afs-translator... why are these files being accessed
> > on a regular client? I'm not sure how much activity is happening from those
> > accesses, but if they are frequent, it seems like some things could probably
> > be sped up quite a bit by reworking whatever is triggering that access. 
> > 
> > In the strace case I just saw it in, I was stracing a 'fs lsm'.
> 
> anything which calls a pioctl. i have patches which I think are also from
> Dan Lovinger which effectively disable the remote syscall interface stuff
> as a compile-time option; I should dust them off.

fwiw, "lpioctl" doesn't look for AFSSERVER, so if you're building utilities
whose performance really matters, you can leave it out. What's neat about
putting this in the pioctl lib is that all the afs utilities work similarly
whether being run via NFS or AFS. I'm skeptical that the small and rare performance gain is worth the confusion engendered by generous ladings of
switches, or otherwise identical programs that work differently.