[OpenAFS-devel] Bug in OpenAFS-1.2.2

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Alf Wachsmann wrote:

> I tried the AFS client from the new OpenAFS-1.2.2 version with
> "-dynroot" set on Linux (RH7.2beta with 2.4.7-2 kernel).
> 
> This new options works great BUT:
> We have a symlink in our top /afs directory for our local cell:
> 	/afs/slac -> slac.stanford.edu

-dynroot doesn't use the local root.afs. This may be a shortcoming
depending on how you look at it, and some other discussion has taken place
out of band, but this is not a bug: it's exactly how it's expected to
work. There's no cell named slac. Combined with afsdb support you can get
an alias for slac.stanford.edu if you have stanford.edu in your
searchpath, though.

> Accessing this symlinked directory does not work any more with
> the new afsd started with the "-dynroot" option.
> 
> The effect is:
> 	cd /afs/slac
> 	bash: cd: /afs/slac: No such file or directory

This is a personal comment and not intended to convey any policy, official
or otherwise, but this is one of the reasons I always hated such links.
When I visit another AFS-using site the lack of /afs/andrew for instance
screwed me one too many times and so I'm religious about both using the
full path and harassing people who create things with the "lazy" path
embedded in them.

That said, hopefully some answer for configuring this sort of thing can be
found and incorporated, but it's not a bug.

-D