Re: root.othercells - a solution to "ls /afs" takes a long time

[Paul Blackburn]

Noel Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't think making a change like this *simply* so that `ls /afs'
> doesn't take a long time, is warranted. It looks like another abuse
> of symlinks.

Hmmm.

I do not understand how you can characterize this
as "another abuse of symblinks"?


How, exactly, does one use symbolic links in a non-abusive way?


You also missed the point that having a permanently mounted
"root.othercells" saves messing around with the coventional
method of mounting root.afs temporarily (eg /afs/.@cell/temp/)
in order to mount/unmount foreign cells.


"root.othercells" works well here for AIX, Linux, and Windows clients.
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