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

[Jeffrey Altman]

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Derek Atkins wrote:

> Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>  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.
>>
>>That really needs to be removed from the documentation.
> 
> 
> Why?  It's extremely useful.  I like using /afs/athena, /afs/dev, /afs/sipb

Is there a good reason why /afs/athena should be a symlink and not a 
second mount point?

Something that has come up with respect to the use of dynamic roots is 
that the dynamic roots support mountpoints but not symlinks. 
Organizations which have symlinks in their root.afs find using dynamic
roots on laptops to be extremely difficult if not impossible.

Some organizations have done something similar to Doug except that 
instead of

   /usr/afsws -> /afs/anl.gov/@sys/usr/afsws

being a symlink in the local file system they are creating

   afsws -> anl.gov/@sys/usr/afsws

in the root.afs volume.  Maybe the answer is to add symlink support to 
dynamic roots but I think we want to document that this kind of setup 
should be avoided.  Or am I completely nuts?

Jeffrey Altman


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