Re: [OpenAFS] [possibly dumb question] volume must occupy entire OS-level filesystem?

2005-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Saturday, December 03, 2005 05:51:57 PM -0800 Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please forgive me if I misunderstand this; I come at the AFS thing more from the protocol/programming angle than the IT professional / storage administrator angle. Specifically, I know much less about t

Re: [OpenAFS] [possibly dumb question] volume must occupy entire OS-level filesystem?

2005-12-04 Thread Derek Atkins
zeroguy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You do not need to dedicate an entire OS partition to AFS to use it as > an AFS partition, but it does need to be a /vicepX directory off of the > root partition, I believe. If you want to use a directory that is not > it's own partition, just create the file

Re: [OpenAFS] [possibly dumb question] volume must occupy entire OS-level filesystem?

2005-12-03 Thread zeroguy
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:51:57 -0800 Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that OpenAFS insists that an AFS volume be served from the > mount point of a physical OS-level partition. In other words, if I > mount some filesystem on /foo, I can't serve AFS files out of > /foo/bar/vicepa --

[OpenAFS] [possibly dumb question] volume must occupy entire OS-level filesystem?

2005-12-03 Thread Adam Megacz
Please forgive me if I misunderstand this; I come at the AFS thing more from the protocol/programming angle than the IT professional / storage administrator angle. Specifically, I know much less about the actual OpenAFS code than the protocol it implements. It seems that OpenAFS insists that an