[OpenAFS] odd mount point behaviour.

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Devine <sdevine@msu.edu> writes:

> However on Fedora 4 (Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz))
> running OpenAFS 1.4.0 built  2005-10-23
> ccmr-mlafs-1 afs]# cd /afs
> ccmr-mlafs-1 afs]# ls -lta
> total 18
> drwxr-xr-x   25 root root 4096 Nov 21 15:23 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root root 2048 Dec 31  1969 .
> drwxr-xr-x  100 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 .msu.edu
> drwxr-xr-x  100 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 msu.edu

> ccmr-mlafs-1 afs]# fs lsmount  .msu.edu
> '.msu.edu' is a mount point for volume '%msu.edu:root.cell'
> ccmr-mlafs-1 afs]# fs lsmount  msu.edu
> 'msu.edu' is a mount point for volume '#msu.edu:root.cell'
> ccmr-mlafs-1 afs]# fs lsmount  msu
> fs: File 'msu' doesn't exist
> #############################
> Note it says "file msu doesn't exist."
> This mount mount (msu) has been in use for years and many docs; etc 
> refer to this.

> Any ideas? Suggestions?

The Fedora Core system is probably using dynroot, which means that the
contents of /afs are automatically generated.  To get dynroot to generate
the cell aliases as well, create a file named CellAlias in your
configuration directory (/usr/vice/etc, /etc/openafs, whatever the
packages use) containing:

    msu.edu msu

(the . entry is automatically also handled).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>