[OpenAFS-devel] Partition problem on Apple Xserve

[Nathan Neulinger]

It doesn't really fix the issue, but you could just touch AlwaysAttach
in the vicepX/ directory to force server to always attach it, even if it
doesn't think it's a mounted partition.

-- Nathan

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 09:07, Harald Barth wrote:
> > since by default the fileserver
> > insists on the /vicepX directories being real partitions.
> 
> I guess someone thought this was a good idea once upon a time because
> if your /vicepX does not get mounted for some reason you don't want to
> create stuff in the root file system. Another way to solve this
> problem is to create some cookie in the partition the first time it is
> used which tells the fileserver that "This is /vicepX of server with
> sysid YY and the format is namei/inode/whatever"(1).
> 
> Of course then the next question is: Should all /vicepX and /vicepYZ
> be assimilated automatically or should you first be forced to create
> such a cookie maually to enable it as a AFS file server partition? I
> tend to vote for the later.
> 
> Should there be the possibility to specify a list of directories to
> be used as file server partitions instead of /vicep*?
> 
> Harald.
> 
> (1) Whatever could be Milko.
> 
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