[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Re: [GSoC2010] the kafs project of OpenAFS

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> To clarify. =A0When using dynroot on Unix or freelance on Windows,
>
> To further clarify - whilst what Jeffrey has outlined is correct for Wind=
ows, it misses some essential details for Unix.
>
> On Unix 'dynroot' populates the local root.afs with all of the entries kn=
own to the cache manager (these may be entries in CellServDB, or ones added=
 with fs newcell).

Or entries in the CellAliases file, which just creates symlinks to the
"proper" cell name.

>This list is permanently populated, so ls /afs/ will list all of the cells=
 in your CellServDB.
>
> The DNS is only used to lookup unknown cells if the -afsdb option is spec=
ified when starting afsd. Despite the name, this controls the use of both A=
FSDB and SRV records.

In 1.5. In 1.4 it uses solely AFSDB records at this time.