I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, unless you have only one
OpenAFS server. The OpenAFS clients communicate with whichever server(s)
house the volumes they are trying to use. Volumes contain what looks
like a directory of subtrees with files, directories, and symbolic
links, but they can also contain mountpoints (which look like
directories) for other volumes in the same or other cells. Those other
volumes may well be on other servers (and certainly will be if they are
out of the parent volume's cell, as a server can only serve one cell).
Yes, this means that a given volume can be "mounted" (referenced as a
subtree really) from multiple places. Try not to make loops, 'kay.
Robinson, Eric wrote:
Network connectivity differs significantly between NFS and Samba. With
CIFS/Samba, shares may participate in a DFS tree and appear to the
client as a single unified tree. However, when the client actually
connects to a resource, he is redirected to the IP address of the server
that holds the resource, so he ends up communicating with multiple
hosts. With NFS, a server mounts the remote filesystem(s) and the client
communicates only with one machine.
Which is OpenAFS more like? I am hoping it is more like NFS because I
have to work around firewall limitations. I am hoping that I can
communicate solely with the OpenAFS server, and it will in turn
communicate with other servers that it has mounted. Is that the way it
works?
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