The reason is because of the way fs lsm works... An AFS mountpoint is
just a special sym-link in the file system, so what fs lsm does is
stat the link and read off the volume and cell name from the name of
the symlink. For example, you can create an AFS mountpoint yourself
using ln -s!
As a result, since "." is not a mountpoint (it is a real, full-fledged
directory), as is "..", you cannot use fs lsm on it. fs la and sa, on
the other hand, deal with directories, not with mountpoints, and hense
they CAN deal with "." and ".."....
I hope I explained this clearly enough. If not, feel free to reask
your question...
-derek
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