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Whats the difference between /afs/cellname and /afs/.cellname?

April 26, 2017AFS difference

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Whats the difference between /afs/cellname and /afs/.cellname?

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AFS has ReadOnly (RO) and ReadWrite (RW) volumes. The convention in AFS is to mount the RW volume “root.cell” as /afs/.cellname and the RO volume “root.cell.readonly” as /afs/cellname. This is so that when you travel down the /afs/.cellname link, AFS will always use the RW site of any volumes that have RO clones. This allows your administrator to update the RW copy of a volume and “vos release $volname” so that it will appear in /afs/cellname.