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| author |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-02-08 12:12:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-02-08 12:12:04 -0800 |
| commit | 81153336eb76b253ba7852f3f1de525bb98f8c4d (patch) | |
| tree | 635fe0495b762841eb72e5ee40d9d88563674691 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu (diff) | |
| parent | afs: Support the AFS dynamic root (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'afs-next-20180208' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull afs updates from David Howells:
"Four fixes:
- add a missing put
- two fixes to reset the address iteration cursor correctly
- fix setting up the fileserver iteration cursor.
Two cleanups:
- remove some dead code
- rearrange a function to be more logically laid out
And one new feature:
- Support AFS dynamic root.
With this one should be able to do, say:
mkdir /afs
mount -t afs none /afs -o dyn
to create a dynamic root and then, provided you have keyutils
installed, do:
ls /afs/grand.central.org
and:
ls /afs/umich.edu
to list the root volumes of both those organisations' AFS cells
without requiring any other setup (the kernel upcall to a program
in the keyutils package to do DNS access as does NFS)"
* tag 'afs-next-20180208' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
afs: Support the AFS dynamic root
afs: Rearrange afs_select_fileserver() a little
afs: Remove unused code
afs: Fix server list handling
afs: Need to clear responded flag in addr cursor
afs: Fix missing cursor clearance
afs: Add missing afs_put_cell()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt index ba99b5ac4fd8..c5254f6d234d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Contents: - Overview. - Usage. - Mountpoints. + - Dynamic root. - Proc filesystem. - The cell database. - Security. @@ -127,6 +128,22 @@ mounted on /afs in one go by doing: umount /afs +============ +DYNAMIC ROOT +============ + +A mount option is available to create a serverless mount that is only usable +for dynamic lookup. Creating such a mount can be done by, for example: + + mount -t afs none /afs -o dyn + +This creates a mount that just has an empty directory at the root. Attempting +to look up a name in this directory will cause a mountpoint to be created that +looks up a cell of the same name, for example: + + ls /afs/grand.central.org/ + + =============== PROC FILESYSTEM =============== |