Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@lang.hm
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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       linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] AFS: Implement OpenAFS pioctls(version)s
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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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