On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:44:13 -0500 Hunter McMillen <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is probably a real beginner question but why do some cellnames > begin with a period? I couldn't find anything about this in the docs, > or perhaps I missed it but I was hoping someone could clear up my > confusion. The ones with the dot prefix are (typically) read/write mountpoints; the other ones are (typically) "normal" mountpoints. See <http://docs.openafs.org/AdminGuide/ch05s07.html>: >> It is conventional to create only one read/write mount point in a >> cell's filespace, using it to mount the cell's root.cell volume just >> below the AFS filespace root (by convention, /afs/.cellname). As >> indicated, it is conventional to place a period at the start of the >> read/write mount point's name (for example, /afs/.abc.com). If your client is running with dynroot, such mountpoints are created automatically, so it's more than just a convention these days. > ls /afs/<Cell-Name> > ls /afs/.<Cell-Name> > > The cell without the '.' has folders named: service and users inside it, > The cell with the '.' has folders named: service, users, bin, and share. That cell probably has a root.cell RW volume that has some directories (namely, 'bin' and 'share') that haven't been released to the RO. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
