Doug,
> Is there anyway that a AFS client can detect if a cell is a real AFS
> cell or if it is a cell accessing DFS via the AFS/DFS translator?
some of the fs commands work via the translator, while some fail, but
tell you that the file in question is not in AFS:
e.g:
$ fs whichcell dce.uni-stuttgart.de
File dce.uni-stuttgart.de lives in cell 'dce.uni-stuttgart.de'
just works fine, while
$ fs exa dce.uni-stuttgart.de
fs: Invalid argument; it is possible that dce.uni-stuttgart.de is not in AFS.
does not.
Looking at the source, both commands are quite similar, the difference being:
fs whichcell internally calls
pioctl(ti->data, VIOC_FILE_CELL_NAME, &blob, 1);
and fs examine calls
pioctl(ti->data, VIOCGETVOLSTAT, &blob, 1);
hence the failure of the latter on /afs/<cell-name> should indicate this cell
to be in fact a DFS cell accessed by the translator.
> I am working on a modified aklog which can use the DCE security
> server to get tokens for AFS and/or AFS/DFS translator.
Btw, I am very interested in such a tool, as it would considerably ease the
migration from AFS to DFS, which we will attack in the very near future.
Regards, Dieter.
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