Re: Unidentified subject!

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <199901192208.RAA06898@tristan.devel.redhat.com>, "Michael K. Johnso
n" writes:
+-----
| CODA won't work because they absolutely insist on it being mounted ONLY
| under /coda and that won't work with chrooted ftp.  I don't understand
| why they insist on enforcing that policy in the kernel, but they do.
+--->8

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.

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