It doesn't really fix the issue, but you could just touch AlwaysAttach in the vicepX/ directory to force server to always attach it, even if it doesn't think it's a mounted partition.
-- Nathan On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 09:07, Harald Barth wrote: > > since by default the fileserver > > insists on the /vicepX directories being real partitions. > > I guess someone thought this was a good idea once upon a time because > if your /vicepX does not get mounted for some reason you don't want to > create stuff in the root file system. Another way to solve this > problem is to create some cookie in the partition the first time it is > used which tells the fileserver that "This is /vicepX of server with > sysid YY and the format is namei/inode/whatever"(1). > > Of course then the next question is: Should all /vicepX and /vicepYZ > be assimilated automatically or should you first be forced to create > such a cookie maually to enable it as a AFS file server partition? I > tend to vote for the later. > > Should there be the possibility to specify a list of directories to > be used as file server partitions instead of /vicep*? > > Harald. > > (1) Whatever could be Milko. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
