Re: ls /afs: It takes a long time

[John Carr]

>> >I think the top level of AFS at a site should only have local directories.

>> If you do this, then sharing files between cells becomes a nightmare.

A nightmare?  Surely that's exaggeration.  In any case, there is already
local abbreviation of pathnames.  Look in root.afs in the athena.mit.edu cell
or the cs.cmu cell.  If I say "/afs/athena/user" to someone at a remote site,
chances are that user has to change the name to obey the local conventions
for root.afs.  Users at CMU say "/afs/cs", but we don't have such a directory
here at MIT.  The battle for unique global pathnames is already lost.