[OpenAFS] -dynroot/CellAliases howto/syntax

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:49:15 -0400 (EDT)


On 18 Jul 2002, Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:

> Dont you think cellaliases will confuse your users ?
> 
> I do belive Location Transparency is a really nice feature with AFS.
> Cellaliases will break Location Transparency.
> 
> they will not have their strange aliases at home with their own
> AFS-clienet.
> 
> they will not be able to understand where they files in afs live when they
> come to another site that have AFS.
> 
> they will not be able to tell people who dont have the same cellaliases
> where they homedirectory is.

/afs/tr
/afs/athena
/afs/sipb
/afs/andrew

already happens
and worse
/afs/cs

which cs? who knows. the battle is lost. move along.