[OpenAFS] CellServDB

Stephan Wiesand stephan.wiesand@desy.de
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:44:16 +0200


On Jun 18, 2010, at 20:34 , Russ Allbery wrote:

> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
>> dynroot with an empty CellServDB works like this, *as long as* the
>> cell has AFSDB (or in 1.5, SRV) records.

wouldn't dynroot with a CellServDB listing just the local cell would =
work like this?

>> we could (and possibly should) make things behave as if CellServDB is
>> empty, with a full cellservdb, so an override of DNS is possible but
>> /afs is not "just populated".
>=20
>> Comments?

Yes, please.

> I've wanted that behavior for a while, but it should probably be =
optional.


It should be a runtime option though, not compile time ;-)

I'd be happy with this change even without it being optional.

--=20
Stephan Wiesand
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