[OpenAFS] Many partitions: How?

[Sensei]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 18:45, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Create additional volumes.
> 
> NO DATA should live in root.cell.  root.cell should contain additional
> volumes, like user, project, etc.  And THOSE should contain YET MORE
> volumes, like user.warlord, user.senseiwa, project.afs, etc.

Ok, I make a step back. How to make an afs cell and have it usable?

1.  vos create ... /vicepa ... root.afs ...
2.  set acls for /afs
3.  vos create ... /vicepa ... root.cell ...
4.  fs mkmount /afs/my.cell root.cell (and .my.cell)
5.  mkdir /afs/my.cell/users, set acls, chown to what I want

6.  pts to add a user (I use kerberos, so no KAS)
7.  mkdir the directory /afs/my.cell/users/user_a
8.  chown and set acls on user_a directory
9.  vos create ... /vicepa ... users.user_a ... (eg. with 1gb quota)
10. fs mkmount /afs/my.cell/users/user_a users.user_a ...

Now, since for every user I have to make a volume specifying the
partition and the quota, it seems that the total quota on a partition
can be greater than the space available on a partition, if not carefully
checked... So, I have a 100 mb partition and assign 20 mb of quota for
each of my 10 users. The sum of possible volume space is 200 mb!

I thought there was the possibility of having different partitions seen
as one ``global'' space, and in this space you create the volumes, which
are logical, with a quota. So you can get rid of the partition location,
but you mount them and that's all.


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