[OpenAFS] Pro's & Con's of /usr/local on AFS....

[Steve Roseman]

Todd M. Lewis wrote:

> Jim Rees wrote:
> 
>>   '/afs/isis' is a symbolic link, leading to a mount point for   
>> volume 'root.cell'.
>>
>> So you broke one of the most important features of afs, the global name
>> space.  Why?
>  
> 'Cause we're stupid? 'Cause I didn't want to make an already too long 
> message even longer?

'Cause you followed the documentation?
http://www.openafs.org/pages/doc/QuickStartUnix/auqbg002.htm#ToC_87

3. (Optional) Create a symbolic link to a shortened cell name, to reduce 
the length of pathnames for users in the local cell. For example, in the 
abc.com cell, /afs/abc is a link to /afs/abc.com.

Steve

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Stephen G. Roseman
Lehigh University
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