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Re: GNU find and AFS (plus afs/vice.h problem?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland J. Schemers III)
Mon Oct 18 18:56:23 1993

From: schemers@slapshot.stanford.edu (Roland J. Schemers III)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 14:59:42 -0700
In-Reply-To: Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com        "Re: GNU find and AFS (plus afs/vice.h problem?)" (Oct 18,  3:53pm)
To: Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com, AFS Info <Info-AFS@transarc.com>

On Oct 18,  3:53pm, Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, the hint that Dan made regarding even/odd vnodes will not
> be valid much longer.  DFS does not make this distinction.  DFS files
> and directories accessed via the  AFS/DFS translator will not adhere to
> that convention.

Thats what I figured would happen with DFS. At that point would a
VIOC_AFS_STAT_MT_PT be the only way to tell if something was a mount point?
And if thats the case then how expensive is a VIOC_AFS_STAT_MT_PT call?
Does the cache contain enough info?

Roland


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