[OpenAFS] odd mount point behaviour.

[Steve Devine]

Russ Allbery wrote:

>Steve Devine <sdevine@msu.edu> writes:
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>>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
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>Any ideas? Suggestions?
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>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:
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>    msu.edu msu
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>(the . entry is automatically also handled).
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Thanks that did it !

/sd

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