[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Does AFS need a partition?

[Nathan Neulinger]

This raises an interesting point... We've gotten rid of the partition
requirement with namei, I wonder how hard it would be to allow
configuring other vice directories besides /vicepX?

I'd likely never use it, but might be useful to someone. 

-- Nathan

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 13:11, Charles Clancy wrote:
> I assume you mean on the server.  It doesn't have to have a partition, but
> it will only use directories of the format /vicepX, where X is some
> letter.  If you create the directory and don't mount anything, it will use
> your root partition.  A "vos partinfo" will report the space available on
> your root partition.
> 
> [ t charles clancy ]--[ tclancy@uiuc.edu ]--[ www.uiuc.edu/~tclancy ]
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jason C. Leach wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > Does AFS need a partition mounted at some particular point, or
> > can I just specify a directory on some other partition to be AFS?
> >
> > I kind of suspect AFS might need the hard boundaries of a partition
> > or disk, but perhaps I can set quotas on a directory to limit it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > j.
> >
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