Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there. I have a few questions about why openafs mountpoints work the > way they do. Please don't interpret this as criticism -- I'm mainly > trying to understand why things work the way they do.
> 1. Why does remove(char*) not work on mountpoints? I expect this was a conscious decision at some point that mount points were special and shouldn't be removable by regular processes that aren't AFS-aware, but I'm not sure. They've "always worked that way" at this point. > 2. In some alternate universe, would it have been possible to > implement mountpoints as symlinks to some volume-name space? For > example, if the cache manager automatically mapped > /afs/cell/@vol/volname to the root directory of volume "volname" > in cell "cell", mountpoints could be implemented as symlinks. Mount points *are* symlinks. So I'm not quite sure what advantage this would have over the current state. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
