[OpenAFS] CellServDB

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Stephan Wiesand
<stephan.wiesand@desy.de> wrote:
>
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 20:38 , Derrick Brashear wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>>> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> dynroot with an empty CellServDB works like this, *as long as* the
>>>> cell has AFSDB (or in 1.5, SRV) records.
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> I've wanted that behavior for a while, but it should probably be optional.
>>
>> Absolutely.
>>
>> -dynroot-all? (paralleling -fakestat-all)
>
>
> fine.
>
> Would ThisCell still show up by default?
>
> NB What to do with cell aliases? I think they should just show up, even if as dangling links. Would this do any harm?

things which enumerate them would immediately "create" the things the
links point to.