On 8/23/07, Dr A V Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Robert Sturrock wrote: > > In former times (when Linux was just born), the content of /afs was > > delivered by a volume itself (named root.afs). All this volume contained > > were mountpoints to root.cell-volumes of other cells. An admin had to > > maintain those mountpoints so that the users of the cell can browse to > > other cells. > > > > Later it became obvious, that maintaining root.afs manually is a lot of > > work if you want to be up to date. At that time dynroot was invented. > > I'm still using a nice tool called ucsdb,
update cellservdb. Tobias Schaefer wrote it. which I presume came from > the University of California at San Diego. >
