Re: Unidentified subject!

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

"Brandon S. Allbery" writes:
>So you have a consistent namespace across all machines.  Same reason most if
>not all AFS sites mount under /afs, although you can change it:  if I give
>you a path like /afs/ece.cmu.edu/support/gnome :-) then it's the same path on
>*all* AFS client machines, whether in the ece.cmu.edu cell or not.

I'm *perfectly* aware of why they would RECOMMEND it.  However, the fact
that they REQUIRE it means that they have immediately made it completely
unsuitable for one of the purposes that they trumpet as a great application
of it: distributed ftp servers.  They can't have their cake and eat it too.

michaelkjohnson

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