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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (NIK%ZURLVM1.BITNET@pucc.princeton.)
Thu Nov 14 14:45:39 1991
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 19:02:27 SET
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
From: NIK%ZURLVM1.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu
Date: 14 November 1991, 18:47:43 SET
From: Michael Niksch 0041-1-7248-913 NIK at ZURLVM1
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
Why not use the following structure:
/afs
/afs/ThisCell
/afs/ThisCell/usr
:
:
/afs/OtherCell1 symbolic link to /afs/.RemoteCells/OtherCell1
/afs/OtherCell2 symbolic link to /afs/.RemoteCells/OtherCell2
:
:
/afs/.RemoteCells
/afs/.RemoteCells/OtherCell1 mount point for OtherCell1
/afs/.RemoteCells/OtherCell2 mount point for OtherCell2
:
:
This way, you can view the standard global namespace from ALL machines,
while you will only 'stat' remote cells if you move into /afs/.RemoteCells.
(I hope the browser is not insistent enough to even follow symbolic links
an do a 'stat' on whatever it points to, is it ???) Admittedly, you have
to tell users that they should NOT refer to /afs/.RemoteCells/... directly,
and the result of /bin/pwd may look a bit strange in remote cells, but that
is not different for any other symbolic link.
Michael
