Christopher D. Clausen wrote: > Uhh, why do users seem to have home directories within their user volumes? > This is dumb IMHO. The home directory should be the root of the user volume > like nearly every other AFS site. > You shouldn't assume that we remember/know how any other AFS site does things. We started this with my vague recollections of my AFS user's perspective from my time at CMU and whatever amount of research Davor had done. None of us have ever done this professionally or even in any kind of environment with high-reliability requirements, though that's what we're aiming for now.
Your message has an accusatory feel to it, and I don't think that is productive here. We've been volunteering huge amounts of our time to making HCoop work, and we've done the best we can with our limited knowledge on some of the technologies that seem like the best choices to use. But on the actual issue, Davor and I decided on that because it seems necessary if we are to avoid giving users permissions to modify certain subdirectories of their volumes assigned for storing databases, web logs, etc.. Maybe there is an obvious (to an expert) better way of doing things, but we're working from analogy from previous, non-AFS-based solutions that have worked out pretty well. You don't need to raise your objection in the same way that you would break the news that we are clubbing baby seals to fund a drug-smuggling ring. _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
