[OpenAFS] CellServDB

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Stephan Wiesand
<stephan.wiesand@desy.de> wrote:
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> On Jun 18, 2010, at 20:34 , Russ Allbery wrote:
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>> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> dynroot with an empty CellServDB works like this, *as long as* the
>>> cell has AFSDB (or in 1.5, SRV) records.
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> wouldn't dynroot with a CellServDB listing just the local cell would work like this?

Sure. As long as you have no desire for any cell with no or erroneous
DNS information.

>>> 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".
>>
>>> Comments?
>
> Yes, please.
>
>> I've wanted that behavior for a while, but it should probably be optional.
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>
> It should be a runtime option though, not compile time ;-)

Agree.

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