[OpenAFS] I'm my own worst enemy sometimes...

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> > Thanks for giving me a nudge in the right direction.  I wasn't seeing the
> > forrest for the trees.  Now that I have thought about things, the
> > semantics I was expecting were unreasonable.  Naturally, anything added or
> > changed directly inside a replicated volume must occur on the
> > /afs/.my_cell path.  Once I added an /afs/.my_cell/u volume (without
> > replication) I could operate on it through /afs/my_cell/u/blah, blah.
> >
> > So, to make sure I understand, one should never replicate anything below
> > /afs/my_cell ?
> 
> That's not necessarily true.
> 
> We replicate the volumes that contain user home directory mount points,
> for instance:
> 
> /afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr16 is cmu.usr16; shadow is a mountpoint for
> user.shadow in that volume. Changes are sporadic and it means that only
> people whose user volumes are offline lose, not all the people with mount
> points there if one server with that volume goes down.
> 
> And, heck, that ignores the idea of having system binaries distributed in
> afs, which will certainly be below /afs/my_cell
> 
> I think the rule is "don't replicate data considered generally read/write"

Yes, the light is going on.  Thanks to you and Nathan for your help!

Steve