[OpenAFS] Re: Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:51:41 -0400


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On 8/23/07, Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Robert Sturrock wrote:
> > In former times (when Linux was just born), the content of /afs was
> > delivered by a volume itself (named root.afs). All this volume contained
> > were mountpoints to root.cell-volumes of other cells. An admin had to
> > maintain those mountpoints so that the users of the cell can browse to
> > other cells.
> >
> > Later it became obvious, that maintaining root.afs manually is a lot of
> > work if you want to be up to date. At that time dynroot was invented.
>
> I'm still using a nice tool called ucsdb,



update cellservdb. Tobias Schaefer wrote it.


which I presume came from
> the University of California at San Diego.
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dr A V Le Blanc</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk">LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Robert Sturrock wrote:<br>&gt; In former times (when Linux was just born), the content of /afs was<br>&gt; delivered by a volume itself (named root.afs). All this volume contained<br>&gt; were mountpoints to 
root.cell-volumes of other cells. An admin had to<br>&gt; maintain those mountpoints so that the users of the cell can browse to<br>&gt; other cells.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Later it became obvious, that maintaining root.afs manually is a lot of
<br>&gt; work if you want to be up to date. At that time dynroot was invented.<br><br>I&#39;m still using a nice tool called ucsdb, </blockquote><div><br><br>update cellservdb. Tobias Schaefer wrote it.<br>&nbsp;<br></div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">which I presume came from<br>the University of California at San Diego. <br></blockquote></div>
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