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

[Glew, Andy]

> > 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).

sounds like AFS is vulnerable to denial of service attacks