Greetings...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Ball) writes:
> Every time a new-to-afs user gets an account on one of our AFS client syste
\ ms,
> they invoke ls on /afs to see what's in it and are hit with interminable
> delays while multiple cells prove to be unreachable. Of course this is
> exacerbated by the fact that virtually everyone aliases ls to ls -F. Once
> they've experienced these delays, I find it more challenging than otherwise
> necessary to convince someone of the practical benifits of using AFS.
>
I got this idea from someone else on the net. We just mount all
foreign cells under /afs/sites instead of /afs thus avoiding the
problem.
I could see this causing problems with symlinks in the remote cells
however...
Mike
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