[OpenAFS] Directory layout for new cells
Sam Hartman
hartmans@mit.edu
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:07:15 -0500 (EST)
So, I'm working on Debian packages for Openafs. Partially because of
Debian policy and partially because it is useful to the user community
, I'm trying to make it easy to set up AFS cells.
As such, I'm working on a script to create and populate root.afs,
root.cell and the top volumes in the cell.
I'm interested in whether anyone else is doing something similar for
other operating systems/environments. If so, we should work together.
I'm also interested in established practice for what belongs in an
initial cell. I'm mostly ignoring the Transarc documentation because
I believe it is a bit dated and seems to focus more on how your
clients find their AFS binaries than on how to set up a cell to get
useful work done. If the point of a cell organization is only to make
the lives of the AFS administrators (as apposed to the users) easier,
then perhaps that cell is not yet a critical part of the community it
serves.
I tend to be a bit MIT-centric in my cell organization; I think
cell/system/@sys is cleaner than cell/@sys, etc. However, I'm
interested in discussion of general cell hierarchy.
--Sam