On Jul 19, 1:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: Re: Home directory layouts...
> If it ever
> became a problem its easy enough to change.
>
> When it becomes a problem, it will be impossible to change, because it will
> require a traversal of your entire afs tree to find all the symlinks.
I meant we could change our password file to contain the full cell name.
As for symlinks we don't have have any in the supported trees that use
/afs/ir/ in a symlink, we use relative links. We treat /afs/ir/ the same way we
would treat /:/ or /.:/fs in DFS. Its a convenience and nothing more. It can be
abused and can break things in a global environment.
I'm not trying to argue that the symlink is a good thing, at this point it
would
cause more trouble then its worth to remove that link. I'm sure we would
get many more complaints (locally) by removing that link then we would
ever get from people outside our cell.
Internally we never compile any software using AFS paths at all. Everything
is compiled to look for a local directory (/usr/local, /usr/pubsw, /usr/newsw,
/usr/leland, etc). That is so we can move whole trees onto a local disk,
into DFS, etc.
Besides, DFS is just around the corner ;-)
Roland
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Roland J. Schemers III | Networking Systems
Authentication Services Programmer | 414 Sweet Hall +1 (415) 723-6740
Distributed Computing Operations | Stanford, CA 94305-3090
Stanford University | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
