[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

[Derek Atkins]

Why not just mount the partition directly at /usr/vice/cache
instead of mounting it on /afs_ext3?  I dont know if a symlink
will work there.

-derek

"ted creedon" <tcreedon@easystreet.com> writes:

> Would a 
>
> ln -s /usr/vice/cache /afs_ext3
>
> work if /usr is reiserfs and /afs_ext3 is ext3?
>
> tedc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org]
> On Behalf Of brettholcomb@charter.net
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:49 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS
>
> I did setup a loop mounted ext2 file system.  So far it seems to work but
> I'm still setting it up.
>
>>On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:29:43PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> 
>> > Okay, that lets OpenAFS out for me then.
>> 
>> I don't see what's so hard about creating an ext2/3 partition for your
>> afs cache.  You should have a dedicated cache partition anyways.
>> Worst case you could use the -memcache option to afsd and skip the
>> persistent disk cache.
>
> Even easier is to use a loop-mounted ext2 filesystem.  My machines all
> run ReiserFS and use loop-mounted ext2's for AFS cache.  It works fine
> and is very easy to set up.
>  
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