[OpenAFS] Re: afsd.fuse usage?
Troy Benjegerdes
hozer@hozed.org
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:48 -0500
Something is broken or not returning particularly useful error messages:
hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse /tmp/afs
fuse: bad mount point `': No such file or directory
hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse -- /tmp/afs
fuse: bad mount point `--': No such file or directory
hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse -- -d /tmp/afs
fuse: bad mount point `-d': No such file or directory
hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse -debug -- -d /tmp/afs
fuse: bad mount point `-d': No such file or directory
hozer@six:~$ dpkg -l openafs-fuse
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
ii openafs-fuse 1.6.0-1 AFS distributed file system experimental FUSE client
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:19:32PM -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:22:08 -0500
> Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to find any documentation on afsd.fuse... Is there a
> > HOWTO, or something? What works, what doesn't?
>
> It accepts all of the options that afsd does, and should behave in the
> same way. Give it a mountdir and a cachedir and it'll "mount" AFS in
> that dir and use the given cache directory.
>
> What should work is unauthenticated file access to AFS; everything else
> does not. So, you can't get authenticated access (unless you use host
> ACLs; but please don't use host ACLs), and you can't use any utilities
> like 'fs' with it.
>
> In developers terms, there's no pioctl, but anything that doesn't
> require a pioctl should work. We just haven't created a way to specify
> "which cache manager do I communicate with?", so a pioctl call wouldn't
> know who to talk to.
>
> --
> Andrew Deason
> adeason@sinenomine.net
>
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