[OpenAFS] -dynroot - what does it really do?

[Derek Atkins]

jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes:

> I probably misunderstood quite a lot. If have "mounted" my afs-volumes
> directly into root.afs and I cannot see these as you have described.
> Probably I should "mount" my volumes under /afs/<CELL>/ since any files
> below /afs/<CELL> are indeed visible.

Ahh.  Yea...  "Don't do that!".    Indeed, all the documentation
explains that your cell should be mounted under root.cell, not under
root.afs.  See the Wiki, as well as any AFS documentation....

> Is there any chance to make my root.afs visible without restarting AFS
> or even reboot my client?

Well, you could mount root.afs somewhere under your root.cell.  But other
than that, no.

> > What happens if you "cd /afs/my.cell.name/" ???
> Yes, it works just fine, see my misunderstandings above.
> 
> > Is the server actually running when you're trying these tests?
> > Do you try running "fs checks" after the server comes up, just to be
> > sure?
> > 
> >> On the other hand, if the server is running
> >> while the client machine boots the behaviour
> >> is normal. This is all with openafs-1.2.8 on
> >> Linux
> > 
> > Well, sure.  But that's nothing new. ;)
> 
> Many thanks for your hints and explications.
> Is there a document where one can find such details?

See the Wiki or the web.   There is a lot of documentation, and much
of this is discussed in it.

-derek

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