[OpenAFS-devel] Re: root via openafs?

[Davor Ocelic]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:18:10 -0300
Adri=C3=A1n Etchevarne <adrian.etchevarne@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dean Anderson wrote:
>=20
> > The problem is that afs sites expects to be mounted
> > at /afs/sitename/. But pivot_root usually takes an inode/vnode, if
> > I recall. Once you have afs going, you should be able to pivot into
> > anything that has public permissions.
> >=20
> One important reason is that you have only one operating system to
> manage and one point less of workstation failure. I have an
> installation of 50+ machines, booting linux from network. They
> mount / from nfs, but /usr, /home and /opt are from afs and disks are
> optional.=20
> .....
> The next step is to get ridden of nfs, using an initrd, but instead
> of using pivot_root, using mount --bind to mount the other
> subdirectories, including /bin and /sbin.

How did you deal with per-file permissions?

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