[PATCH] AFS: Implement an autocell mount capability

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Aug 9 08:28:23 EDT 2010


David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:

> Implement the ability for the root directory of a mounted AFS filesystem to
> accept lookups of arbitrary directory names, to interpet the names as the
> names of cells, to look the cell names up in the DNS for AFSDB records and
> to mount the root.cell volume of the nominated cell on the pseudo-directory
> created by lookup.

Hold this patch for the moment.  One of the prerequisite patches hasn't made
it upstream yet.

David



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