Hi, On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:17:48PM +1100, Katie Hardman wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Just curious to know, If say, i was to sync Documents and Settings with > AFS, when a computer connects will it display ALL users documents and > settings in my computer, or will it only download the information as > required. If someone could clarify this for me it'd be great!
I guess, you're talking about using Windows as AFS-Client. You don't really "connect" to AFS like you do with Windows-Shares. AFS is a distributed filesystem. The AFS-Windows-client shows the root of this filesystem as a named drive (e.g. 'F:'). Looking at 'F:\' will show some directories, representing different AFS-cells (~ AFS-"Domains") which might be distributed all over the world. Changing to one of the cell-directories is enough to tell you computer to connect to servers of that cell and show what's there. Your AFS-client will just get the data, you are trying to access. Listing an AFS-directory will not fetch e.g. the content of files or the content of it's subdirectories. However, there are exceptions like the explorer trying to read a file's icon or some filemanager scanning the whole filesystem tree - but that's not AFS's fault. The whole (global) AFS namespace looks like a gigantic directory tree - no need to explicitly connect to any afs-server. How the tree is structured is up to the administrators of each cell. HTH Ragards, Frank _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
