[OpenAFS-port-darwin] mount_afs q's

[Alexei Kosut]

On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:25 AM, David Botsch wrote:
> Then, went to figure out how to use mount_afs to mount afs (we have 
> -dynroot -afsdb -fakestat also as afsd options). Anyway, I ended up 
> using:
> mount_afs root.afs /Network/afs
> which did work (yay!)
>
> However, I noticed that a lot of cells not listed in my CellServDB 
> (though, are in a file called CellServDB.master) were suddenly in /afs
> Also, a "cell" for our dns name (ccmr.cornell.edu) was listed whose 
> contents seem to be the same as our cell, which is msc.cornell.edu 
> (probably afsdb weirdness).

This is because "root.afs" is not the same as the root of AFS.  
Confusing, huh?  You normally use -dynroot, which generates its own AFS 
root.  What you're seeing when you mount "root.afs" is the contents of 
the actual "root.afs" volume on your local AFS cell.  This is what 
you'd see if you didn't use -dynroot.

So this is expected behavior.  If you want to mount what you would 
normally see in /afs, use:

mount_afs "" /Network/afs

The empty string parameter to the mount command tells OpenAFS to use 
its regular root, which in your case is the dynamically-generated one.

Alexei