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

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Only one I'm aware of is the obvious disk-free issue - where you do
partinfo, the free and used space is common across multiple vice
partitions, but if you only have one, that's probably not a big deal.


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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> Nice! Are there any restrictions/drawbacks when compared to a=20
> real separate partition?
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> 	It hasn't had to for a while.
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> 	touch /vicepa/AlwaysAttach
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> 	will cause it to mount even if it's not a filesystem=20
> mount point.
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> 	-- Nathan
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> 		Is it still necessary that /vicepa be a=20
> separate partition dedicated
> 		to AFS? I'm about to experiment with AFS and=20
> 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=20
> problem with the
> 		underlying file system/fsck. Are there other=20
> reasons that /vicepa
> 		needs to be on a separate partition?
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> 		Thanks,
> 		Brendan
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