[OpenAFS] Nomenclature Follow-Up

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:15:02 -0400


beelz wrote:
> Well, I got my AFS server up and running and have a better understanding of
> the hierarchy and mount points so please disregard my previous question.  I
> still don't have LDAP configured but so far I've been able to connect and
> move files with a few different client OSs.  Very satisfying after a
> considerable amount of time spent on this project.
>
> I've decided to keep my volumes at approximately 100 GB.  I do not have
> multiple servers and I would appreciate any suggestions people have as to
> sizing volumes, and whether there have been any problems with large (like,
> around 100 GB) ones.  Also, what is a good way to create a volume that will
> be shared by multiple users?  There's a lot of information about creating
> new home directories, but what about those not associated with specific
> users?
>
> John
>
>
>   
A volume is a volume. To share a volume with anothe user, you give that 
user access using the "fs setacl" command. The new user will need to be 
able to cd to the volume in question, do you will need to give  
"system:anyuser" or the new user lookup (l) access to all ancestors of 
the directory where the volume is mounted.

FYI, system:anyuser means anyone in the world with an AFS client.

Jason