linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] AFS: Implement OpenAFS pioctls(version)s

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906171213420.22898@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] AFS: Implement OpenAFS pioctls(version)s

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:

> There are no magic "automounts" such that OS won't know that
> user.tytso AFS Volume in the athena.mit.edu AFS cell is at
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/t/y/tytso, so the only "mountpoint" that
> exists as far as AFS is concerned is at /afs --- and that in the AFS
> world, it's essentially a universal convention that AFS pathnames
> begin with "/afs", and so the AFS filesystem will always be mounted in /afs.

so does this mean that there can never be more than a single AFS 
filesystem mounted?

David Lang
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