[OpenAFS] Problem for file system navigation in a backup volume tree

[Jason Edgecombe]

Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> In our AFS space the user home consists on an AFS volume (located on a file 
> server in the geographical site where the most relevant computational 
> resources for the user are located) under which other user related AFS 
> volumes in other geographical sites are also mounted.
>
> When the user explores the content of the backup version of his main home 
> volume the mounts points of his volumes on other sites lead him NOT to their 
> backup version but to the related RW volumes and this is very confusing for 
> the user.
>
> This would be avoided if the navigation criteria for backup volumes were 
> almost  analogous to the criteria for the navigation in RO volumes, that is 
> AFS should automatically provide the access to the BK version if the mount 
> point  is itself in a BK volume and a BK volume exists.
>
> Would that be possible?
>
> Are there other solutions for the problem?
>   
Hi,

Have you tried using the -backuptree option for starting the "afsd"
process on the client?

See the afsd man page or
http://www.openafs.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/openafs/doc/man-pages/pod8/afsd.pod?rev=1.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

That sounds like what you want.

Sincerely,
Jason