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

Norman P. B. Joseph joseph@ctc.com
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:38:32 -0400


Excuse me for being dense, (and I was in one of those Transarc training
classes back in the day), but what's the harm in that symbolic link?

-norm



On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:34, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, 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?
> 
> Huh?  Transarc trainers specifically taught to do exactly this 15
> years ago.  The recommendation was there to still use the FQDN in
> all symlinks, scripts, etc.  But it was recommended to have it for
> typing ease.  Remember /afs/tr ?
> 
> -Mitch
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