On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 15:39 -0500, David Flatley wrote:
>      I compiled OpenAFS 1.6.1 for a Red Hat 5.6 server. In the /afs
> directory there are all the cells for all our various AFS cells. On an AIX
> system there is a link for the short name for our local cell.
> On my Linux system there is no link and I have not been able to find a way
> to put it in. When I try to create a link it tells me it is a read only
> file system.

On Linux by default you will be seeing a synthetic root volume
(-dynroot) generated from CellServDB entries. If you want to create
short names in a dynroot, you list them in the CellAlias file. (OpenAFS
has manpages; `man CellAlias` should work to see the documentation.)

Alternately you can turn off -dynroot in /etc/sysconfig/openafs, and you
will get the same real root.afs.readonly that the AIX system sees.

In both cases you will need to restart the OpenAFS client for the change
to take effect.

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