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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Aug 6 12:24:51 2000
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 06 Aug 2000 12:24:41 -0400
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The latest release of Arla (an open-source AFS client being developed
in Sweden) offers the following interesting feature, which should
solve the same problem root.othercells was meant to:
> * support for fake mount points. When just stating a mount point,
> arlad makes up some reasonable information for the mount point, and
> the actual data for the volume is not retrieved until the contents is
> needed. This speeds up GUIs, `ls -l /afs', and other user operations.
> Enabled with the `--fake-mp' option to arlad.
I have no idea how easy it would be to get Transarc to implement that,
though.
BTW, you can find the announcement I quoted in arla-announce [73].
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
