Open Cells for Milko?

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Seth Aaron Nickell <snickell at stanford.edu> writes:

> My afs quota (about 65 megs) is too small to really be useful to creating
> a "useful program" archive, so I've been trying to work out alternate
> solutions. Since mounting isn't an option (damn Unix...up with HURD!), AFS
> seems a logical choice (particularly since AFS is already the proferred FS
> option here ;-)

This isn't really related to arla, but I think that you need to take this
up with your sysadmins. How its solved here at kth is that we have both a
computer club with it own afs-cell, and for all other afs-cells there is a
`hacks' groups that have their own volumes with programs that the student
(and staff) can use. 
 
> This obviously leaves milko as the only possible option. But before I go
> through configuring milko (again, I failed once a couple months back)...I
> wanted to ask feasibility questions.
> 
> Is there an "open" cell of sorts wherein I could "add" my volume server
> running milko? Could I create my own cell? Is there a way to get it listed
> under /afs (I believe my university registers the transarc approved
> "default" cells here - very restricted)?

Sure you can try to register the cell with transarc, just send a mail to
support at transarc.com, or even better, convince transarc that they should
implement dns AFSDB-rr (or SRV-rr if you have that religion). 
 
> I would particularly like to create my own cell if there were a way, as a
> non-superuser, to "add" or utilize my cell as part of the filesystem.

Your cell needs to be in CellServDB that you school uses or if they use
arla, your cell's DNS servers needs to have AFSDB-rr.

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