[OpenAFS] Re: [Slightly OT] changing UID of a user to 1

[Matthew Andrews]

I believe the rationale for not making attachment be the default 
behavior is that you don't want to attach a vicepX directory that IS a 
mountpoint, but where for whatever reason the mount failed.

-Matt Andrews

Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

>touch /vicepX/AlwaysAttach
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>I believe /vicepX can be a symlink to any directory or an actual
>directory. AlwaysAttach will cause it to be added as a vice partition
>even if it's not an actual mount point.
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>I'm not sure why this shouldn't just be the default behavior, with an
>option for 'DontAttach' to keep it from attaching a particular
>dir/partition.
>
>-- Nathan
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>[mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Russ Allbery
>>Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 4:00 PM
>>To: Madhusudan Singh
>>Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
>>Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: [Slightly OT] changing UID of a user to 1
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>>Madhusudan Singh <singh.madhusudan@gmail.com> writes:
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>>>Ok. What if I add additional mass storage (say a bunch of USB hard
>>>disks) which do not have any such partitions (mounted instead at say
>>>/mnt/usbhdXX) ?
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>>Mount them as /vicep? instead.  It will be much easier.
>>
>>That being said, there's some trick that lets you use a symlink from
>>/vicep? to the actual mount point.  You have to create a file 
>>that forces
>>the file server to still treat the partition as eligible for 
>>AFS volumes.
>>I don't remember the magic, but someone else here should know.
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>>Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             
>><http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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