[OpenAFS] Why must /vicepa be its own partition?

[Neulinger, Nathan]

It hasn't had to for a while.

touch /vicepa/AlwaysAttach

will cause it to mount even if it's not a filesystem mount point.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Brendan Cully
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:05 PM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Why must /vicepa be its own partition?
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> Is it still necessary that /vicepa be a separate partition dedicated
> to AFS? I'm about to experiment with AFS and I'd prefer to share free
> space with a large existing data partition.
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> This is on linux, so I gather that there's no problem with the
> underlying file system/fsck. Are there other reasons that /vicepa
> needs to be on a separate partition?
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> Thanks,
> Brendan
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