[617] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Problems related to setting up anon FTP.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Vogels)
Fri Feb 14 20:59:40 1992
To: Mike_Kazar@transarc.com
Cc: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Feb 92 14:49:26 EST."
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 10:09:54 +0000
From: Werner Vogels <werner@freya.inesc.pt>
> This is seriously ugly, but you could make a small partition with a
> special file "zero" in it, and mount it at /afs/cellname/usr/ftp/dev.
> The mount could be done from /etc/rc after starting afsd. From your
> machine, at least, it would look like there's a /dev/zero once you're
> chroot'ed to /afs/cellname/usr/ftp (assuming that's where it chroots).
>
> Mike Kazar
Don't worry it's not half as ugly as what I did to make it work temporarely:
I just created a reasonable sized file filled with zeroes and it works ....
Werner
