[OpenAFS-devel] AFS/DFS Mount points

[Russ Allbery]

Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> writes:

> I'm not disputing the way that AFS works internally.  The point is that
> it works wrongly.  (though I think perhaps the example refutes the point
> that the mode is somehow special) The commands I listed are not
> unreasonable for users (and programs) to execute.  '#' and '%' are valid
> characters for filenames, so they are valid to have in targets for
> symlinks. They just happen to be unusual because # and % have special
> meanings in several shells.

> If mount points were a special type of inode, then it would always work
> correctly, since the only way to create such an inode would be through
> the fs command.  I don't think this is big change, work-wise.

Jeffrey already explained a course of action to address your problem
that's much simpler than the one that you're proposing.  Why are you still
talking about new inode types?

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