arla 0.7.2 troubles on sparc netbsd 1.3.1

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Thu Jun 25 16:49:48 CEST 1998


>  > I got some trouble with arla on sparc nbsd 1.3.1.
>  > Some volumes mount point appear to be "not resolved". Here is an en
example:
>  > :; ls -la
>  > total 4
>  > drwxr-xr-x   2 1028     20           2048 Jun 24 16:10 .
>  > drwxrwxrwx  41 root     wheel        2048 Jun 25 11:45 ..
>  > lrw-r--r--   1 1028     20             13 Jun  4 10:58 003 ->
#src.top.003#
>  
>  A mount point consists of a symbolic link that begins with a hash and
>  ends with a dot. Since your symbolic link ends in a hash, arla does
>  not recognize it as a mount point.

Ah, but (Transarc) AFS does recognize these. We have the same problem;
Presumably EMT is mis-creating mount points. On the other hand "real" AFS
source doesn't seem to care what the mount points end with. The code seems to
check exactly never (but I haven't looked hard either)

-D







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