[OpenAFS-devel] AFSDB in Openafs 1.2.5

[Jimmy Engelbrecht]

Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On 29 Jul 2002 19:04:22 +0200, Jimmy Engelbrecht <jimmy@e.kth.se> wrote:
> 
> > > Empty CellServDB entries are not allowed by OpenAFS (even though they
> > > are allowed by arla), thus resulting in the odd behavior you're seeing.
> > > Why do you want to have empty CellServDB entries
> > 
> > I want them in /afs even if they have not accessed yet.
> 
> That's fine.  They will be in /afs because they are mountpoints in
> root.afs.  When you try to access them, the cache manager will try
> to evaluate the mountpoint, causing an AFSDB lookup for the cell in
> question.  So, in this situation you don't need empty CellServDB
> entries.
> 
> > So if i use want to use AFSDB-records i have to run dynroot ?
> > I see no reason for that dependency.
> 
> No, there's no dependency; I was similarly confused by your mention
> of dynroot in your message.  The two features are fairly independent.
> 
> If you are using _both_ dynroot and AFSDB, there is a reason for empty
> CellServDB entries: to tell dynroot to make mountpoints for those cells
> before you try to access them, but fetch the volume server information
> from AFSDB records.  (Same reason as you mention above for non-dynroot
> case, except I believe it only applies here and not there.)

You are right and i am wrong.
A empty CellServDB will do what i want and make me happy.

/Jimmy