On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:44:13PM -0500, Hunter McMillen wrote: > > Hi everyone, > 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. > example: > There are two entries the cell name, one with a '.' in front of it and > one without. > 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.
I'm betting you will find that /afs/<cell-name> is the RO version of <cell-name's> root.cell volume, and /afs/.<cell-name> is the explicit RW version of that same volume --- this is a pretty strong convention amongst several cells that I've seen. You can verify this with the 'fs lsm' command: - fs lsm /afs/<cell-name> is probably going to return something like '/afs/<cell-name>' is a mount point for volume '#root.cell' - fs lsm /afs/.<cell-name> is probably going to return something like '/afs/.<cell-name>' is a mount point for volume '%root.cell' The "#" in '#root.cell' means 'normal mount, prefer the RO version of a volume if one exists', "%" means 'explicitly use the RW version of the volume". The reason you see different contents is because someone has made new changes to the RW version of the root.cell volume but hasn't released it yet. Caveat: if you're on a client doing dynroot I'm not sure what the fs command above will actually return, since the cache manager gins up all those entries itself, and I can never remember how it handles them. But the reasoning behind them is the same. -- Thomas L. Kula | [email protected] | http://kula.tproa.net/ _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
