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

[Ken Hornstein]

>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?

I always thought that symbolic links were kinda like salt ... good
when used appropriately, but using them too much will kill you in
the long run.

It always seemed to me that the right solution was to change the
cache manager so that a stat() of a mountpoint in /afs didn't cause
you to contact that cell.  There's was even some code that was #ifdef'd
out in the cache manager that claimed to do that (but it was for
NeXTStep, so I suspect that it hasn't been maintained :-) ).

--Ken