2014-01-30 Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Eric W. Biederman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> These files have been read-only since this code was merged in 2002. >> Over a decade of not being used seems like a strong indication that no >> one cares about the write path. > > I think this is a pretty strong argument. Counter-arguments, anybody? > > Linus
Hi! In afs documentation is written that you need to write to these files. See: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt#n82 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt#n159 Without cells file, you cannot specify other cell servers and you can use only one rootcell which was specified in kernel cmdline. So for mounting other server, you need to reboot kernel (if you compiled afs driver statically) and without cells file there is no other option to mount more afs servers... (or at least it is not written in that documentation). So I think without write access it is hard or maybe impossible to use afs driver. But maybe, afs maintainers or other afs developers should write more info about it (or update documentation if is old). -- Pali Rohár [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
