[OpenAFS] Is /vicepa really mandatory on afs clients?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Craig Cook wrote:

> In the IBM docs for creating a client it contains this:
>
>
> Create a directory called /vicepxx for each AFS server partition you are configuring (there must be at least one). Repeat the command for each partition.
>
>   # mkdir /vicepxx
>
>
> Does there really need to be at least one /vicepa partition?  I am 
> looking to setup an afs client only...  If each afs server has /vicepa 
> shared, it would imply every afs box has to share some of its disk 
> space.

if you're looking to set up a client, the server instructions don't 
matter.

if you want to set up a database server only, just don't create the 
fileserver bnode (or /vicepa)

> Is there a minimum size /vicepa must be?  Can I make it 50 meg and everything still work?

there's a machine at mit (well, maybe still) which had a vice partition on 
a floppy.