[OpenAFS] Small suggestion for RH spec file?

Steven N. Hirsch shirsch@adelphia.net
Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:01:44 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> > Some sites seem to want to NOT have afs be a global filesystem. I can
> > understand not wanting to export your own to the world, but seems less
> > than useful to not have access to all the others.
> 
> The historical reason is because of ls -F /afs.  I wonder if publicizing
> -dynroot more would cut down on the number of people who feel the need to
> run with restricted CellServDB files.

In my case, it wouldn't make any difference.  My route to the corporate
AFS server goes over a VPN link which is not up all the time.  Even with
dynroot, the system hangs if I accidently try to cd into that part of the
/afs/* tree when the link is down.

I need to control what appears in the CellServDB file - period.

Principle of least surprise suggests that user-modified configuration 
files ought be left alone.

Just my $0.02.

Steve