[OpenAFS] rh9 + openafs 1.2.10

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:20:41 -0500


On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:52:10 -0500 Mitch Collinsworth 
<mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Nick Burrett <nick@dsvr.net> writes:
>>
>> > I was hoping to use AFS within a chroot'ed environment.  It doesn't
>> > seem possible to multiply mount AFS, say 80 times.
>>
>> Nope, I wouldn't expect that to work at all.  Certainly not with
>> normal AFS.  You might be able to get it to work with dynroot, but I
>> still doubt it.
>
> Interesting.  I think I remember doing this years ago, but without
> the need to mount AFS more than once.  I think it was for an ftp
> server running on an Ultrix machine.

Yup, it'll work fine on Ultrix.  But on modern systems, you'll find that 
things like the dynamic linker and, on certain platforms, even establishing 
network connections, are completely impossible without the right devices. 
And you can't put devices in AFS.