Dynamic root.afs (was Re: [OpenAFS] Directory layout for new cells)

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

Oh, never mind... I was still stuck in arla-land... In arla, most of the
work is done in user space arlad. 

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:53 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: 'Kelsang Wangden'; Sam Hartman; openafs-info@central.org
> Subject: Re: Dynamic root.afs (was Re: [OpenAFS] Directory layout for
> new cells)
> 
> 
> "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> > Why get so complicated? Just have the existing 'afsd' trap 
> requests for the
> > 'root.afs' volume and handle them internally. If you make 
> this an option -
> > people can still choose to continue using a REAL root.afs 
> volume, or they
> > can have afsd build a virtual one instead.
> 
> Huh?  afsd is just a call into the kernel, where almost all the work
> is done.  None of the real AFS work is done by afsd proper.  So, how
> would "'afsd' trap requests for 'root.afs'" when none of the file
> operations pass through the afsd code?
> 
> > -- Nathan
> 
> -derek
> 
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