[310] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
AFS/NFS translator hint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Nichols)
Wed Sep 18 15:13:11 1991
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1991 11:05:03 PDT
From: David Nichols <nichols@parc.xerox.com>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
I discovered this today and don't remember seeing it on this list.
If you are running the AFS/NFS translator, but mount /afs as something
else on the NFS client (say /afs2), then things like "fs la" don't work,
giving messages like
fs: File '/afs2/parc/user/nichols' doesn't exist
A fix for this is to make a symlink from /afs2 (or whatever) to /afs on
the translator machine. This works because the NFS client is sending an
"fs la /afs2/..." request to the translator's rmtsys daemon. The
translator simply does a pioctl on /afs2/.... With the symlink in
place, this succeeds. The right fix is probably for the fs command on
the NFS client to translate the request before sending it.
David
