[OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

Brandon Allbery allbery.b@gmail.com
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:29:01 -0500


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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM, <jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi> wrote:

> I am by no means an administrator, rather a UX designer building a concept
> design as easy as possible for the end users. So, I take it, it is
> possible to build an afs client without static pointers to afs servers. I
> hope this applies to the home cell as well, since the users' homedirs are
> there.
>

This is what SRV records are for, yes.  Ideally, the CellServDB on clients
is for legacy use with old cells that don't have SRV records in place (and
to some extent is probably part of "don't make IBM unhappy").  The server
CellServDB is a different issue, I think, but only relevant to database
servers which need to know about each other.

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