[OpenAFS] Mount points for .backup volumes

[Martin Schulz]

Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > On the windows client, a colleague was also faced with a directory listing
> > along the lines of
> > 
> >     \.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\.backup\...
> 
> This certainly seems like a bug in the windows client -- the unix
> cache manager refuses to evaluate a backup volume mountpoint in
> a backup volume, returning ELOOP.

No, this is not restricted to Windows. Though it worked well most of
the time, I encountered some messages about a "recursion too deep" on
my Linux boxes as well (I dont't remember exactly the opportunity). I
now use a structure of

/afs/cellname/user/schulz
/afs/cellname/user/Backup/schulz

No problems with that.
(there is no user called "Backup", for sure..)

Yours,
-- 
Martin Schulz                             schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de
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