clients to reevaluate directory lookups any time the sysname changes.
- Fixed several bugs related to sysname handling
- Fixed a bug preventing 'fs exportafs' from changing the flag which
- controlls whether callbacks are made to NFS clients to obtain tokens
+ controls whether callbacks are made to NFS clients to obtain tokens
and sysname lists.
- Starting in this version, when the PAG manager starts up, it makes a
call to the translator to discard any tokens belonging to that client.
access checks, and an fsid option must be provided to set the filesystem
identifier to be used in NFS filehandles. Note that for live migration
to work, a consistent filesystem id must be used on all translator systems.
-The export may be accomplised with a line in /etc/exports:
+The export may be accomplished with a line in /etc/exports:
/afs (rw,no_subtree_check,fsid=42)
To enable this feature, afsd must be run with the -rmtsys switch. OpenAFS
client utilities will use this feature automatically if the AFSSERVER
environment variable is set to the address or hostname of the translator
-system, or if the file ~/.AFSSERVER or /.AFSSERVER exists and contains the
+system, or if the file ~/.AFSSERVER or /.AFSSERVER exists and contains the
translator's address or hostname.
On systems running the client PAG manager (afspag.ko), AFS system calls
This feature is automatically supported by the PAG manager if it has
been configured to forward system calls to an NFS translator. However,
requests will be honored only if they come from port 7001 on the NFS
-translator host. In addition, this feature must be enabld on the NFS
+translator host. In addition, this feature must be enabled on the NFS
translator system as described above.
The PAG manager maintains a system-wide sysname list, which is used to
satisfy callback requests from the NFS translator. This list is set
-intially to contain only the compiled-in default sysname, but can be
+initially to contain only the compiled-in default sysname, but can be
changed by the superuser using the VIOC_AFS_SYSNAME pioctl or the
'fs sysname' command. Any changes are automatically propagated to the
NFS translator.
## Dynamic Mount Points
-This patch introduces a special directory ".:mount", which can be found
+This patch introduces a special directory ".:mount", which can be found
directly below the AFS root directory. This directory always appears to
be empty, but any name of the form "cell:volume" will resolve to a mount
point for the specified volume. The resulting mount points are always
point), it will complete the path to the AFS root using the dynamic
mount directory.
-This feature is available whenever the dynamic AFS root is enabled.
+On non-linux cache managers, this feature is available when dynamic
+root and fake stat modes are enabled.
+
On Linux systems, it is also available even when dynroot is not enabled,
to support the NFS translator. It is presently not possible to disable
this feature, though that ability may be added in the future. It would
-be difficult to make this feature unavailble to users and still make the
+be difficult to make this feature unavailable to users and still make the
Linux NFS translator work, since the point of the check being performed
by the NFS server is to ensure the requested file would be reachable by
the client.
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