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

[Christopher Lindsey]

> 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.

I'm not sure it's warranted either, but we have found that on some
Linux systems the side effects of 'ls /afs' are worse -- it completely
locks up all AFS access for all users on the system.  We've been able
to systematically duplicate this on RedHat 6.x machines (but not on
5.x).

Our current "solution" is to limit the entries in CellServDB to
sites that we regularly access and hope that nobody ever needs
to visit an unlisted cell.

Chris