[8500] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: special devices support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Tue Feb 20 15:24:53 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:03:07 -0500
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To: Patty OReilly <oreilly@qualcomm.com>, info-afs@transarc.com
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On Friday, February 16, 2001 16:39:48 -0800, Patty OReilly
<oreilly@qualcomm.com> wrote:
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| Is is possible to create special devices in AFS space?
| This is need for chroot'd environments.
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No. You can mount a tmpfs/ramfs/md/whatever memory or swap-based fs your
OS offers over an AFS directory, though, and put your files there.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
