It is a requirement to have ALL AFS data, local or not, under
a single, big subtree (normally /afs), simply because the AFS
daemon afsd starts by mounting ONE volume (normally root.afs)
on ONE mount point (normally /afs). Only within this subtree,
AFS mount points for other local or non-local volumes will be
recognised. You can NOT start multiple instances of afsd to
mount over different mount points. Within the subtree, you are
in principle free to mess around at your discretion. You could,
for instance, mount one part of your volumes under /afs/mytree1,
another part under /afs/mytree2, and not mount remote cells
at all, or mount some of their data volumes directly, e.g. as
/afs/mytree3/mess/someremotedata. However, you should have a
VERY good reason to do this, and you should be VERY confident
that you will NEVER want to have the standard global name space.
Michael Niksch TEL: +41-1-7248-913
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory FAX: +41-1-7103608
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