[OpenAFS-devel] The Xserve saga ...

[Valerio Luccio]

As mentioned, thanks to a pointer by Tim Wood, I was able to get my 
OpenAFS server on the Xserve to see the /vicepa partition. I wish that 
everything else went smoothly, but alas ....

On the Mac OS, the afs disk is actually mounted on "/Network/afs" (with 
a symlink from "/afs" to it). If I run as a client this works fine 
mounting there my external cells, but if I run as a server on the 
Xserve, this mount is never created (in other words, although the mount 
command shows "AFS on /Network/afs" if you try to list "/Network/" it 
tells you that "afs" does not exist). Does anyone have a clue where this 
mounting is done in the code ? I'm currently digging through the source 
code, but is a big task.

Thanks,

BTW: this could become a big issue, with Apple aggressively marketing 
these Xserve's, especially in academia, more and more people will be 
buying them (already there is such a demand that Apple cannot keep up). 
I'm happy to be the guinea pig on this ....

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