[OpenAFS] mountpoints are always RW...

[Kevin Coffman]

Are all the volumes in the path from 'cellname' down to 'test' 
replicated as well?  Once the client is forced down a RW path (because 
one or more of the intervening volumes is RW-only) it will continue 
down the RW path.


> OK. Either I'm doing something wrong, or my understanding of AFS is 
> severely flawed. My understanding of AFS clients is that they will 
> favour a RO copy of a volume over a RW copy, unless the -rw flag was 
> used when creating the mount with fs mkmount.
> 
> So why when I mount a volume on my AFS tree does fs lsmount always say 
> #volumename for BOTH /afs/.cellname/dir and /afs/cellname/dir (Which 
> will favour the RO copy? SHouldn't .cellname be the RW copy with 
> %volumename?) but fs examine shows it as the RW copy, and writing to the 
> .cellname tree shows up in the /afs/cellname tree without doing a 
> release? (I thought the RO path would read from the RO copy, and not 
> update till a release).
> 
> This is Transarcs AFS 3.6 on AIX (But affects my openAFS clients as well).