[OpenAFS] openafs and loop device on linux

[Nathan Rawling]

I'm not attempting to make work for anyone, or even just complaining. 

I am curious, however. Is there any compelling reason that fileserver
partitions really need to be named "/vicep??"? Is there some sort of an
alpha->numeric mapping in the code somewhere that requires this?

Or, is this one of those "conventions" that pop up every once in a while
that live past their usefulness (like /usr filesystems)?

Nathan

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Nikola Kotarov wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have a problem with openafs and loop device...I can't create a partition
> with a loop device:
> 
> root@rs1:/home/bbyte/openafs-1.2.2# vos create rs1 /vicepa root.afs -cell
> rs1 -noauth -verbose -maxquota 30000
> vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on the server
> 
> root@rs1:/home/bbyte/openafs-1.2.2# mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sda6 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sda7 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sda3 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/ram0 on /var/lib/apache/gzip_tmp type ext2 (rw)
> /usr/local/afs_data/rs1 on /vicepa type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
> 
> everything is ok with the loop device but what is the problem with the AFS?
> 
> Nikola Kotarov
> 
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