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

[Charles Clancy]

Does the fileserver currently follow symlinks for /vicepX directories?
Support for that might be easier than adding another configuration file,
and give the same flexibility.

Don't make it too flexible, or you'll get people who want to store their
fileserver partitions for one cell in the AFS space of another.  ;)

[ t charles clancy ]--[ tclancy@uiuc.edu ]--[ www.uiuc.edu/~tclancy ]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> 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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