Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >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
Yes, except that it might take a while to get "out there" and change every
AFS client.
A least with "root.othercells", a cell administrator can provide a
solution
for clients of that cell without having to modify those AFS clients.
--
cheers
paul
http://acm.org/~mpb
"Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a
hazard.
If they're a benefit, it's not my problem." --Deckard
http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0083658
