[OpenAFS] How to import a directory into afs

Tino Schwarze tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:34:27 +0200


Hi FB,

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:13:15PM +0200, FBO wrote:

> is it possible to make a standard unix-directory (or partition)
> residing on a afs-fileserver (not on a volume within a /vicepx-partition)
> being visible and readable in the afs-tree?

No. AFS does not support NFS-like exporting of existing directories.

> This directory should be read-only (is read-write possible, too?) in afs.

Just create a volume and copy the data into it. Then create a symlink
from the original place to the new place in AFS.

Bye, Tino.

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