[OpenAFS-devel] 1.2.9 bug

[Russ Allbery]

Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:

> Cell nicknames like /afs/ir are a bad idea and should not be used.  One
> of the big advantages of afs over some other distributed file systems is
> the global name space.  Breaking it is just wrong.

I agree in principal, but the thought is about 11 years too late.  The
only way we'd ever be able to get rid of /afs/ir at Stanford is by moving
to a different file system.  As sympathetic as I am to the position, this
is a windmill at which I have no particular desire to tilt.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>