ALIASDB(5)

NAME
AliasDB - add alias for an afs cell in dynroot

DESCRIPTION
The file AliasDB add aliases for afs cellnames in dynroot, useful to add readwrite mountpoints in dynroot.

Each line in the file contains at least two elements with an optional third element. The first element is the cell name to make the alias for. The second element is the alias. The optional third element is describing properties of the mountpoint.

By default, an alias is a readonly mountpoint, which means that afsd will use readonly replicas of volumes, if they exist. If an alias set to readwrite, afsd will disregard the readonly replicas and use the readwrite volumes only. This will seriously limit performance, but maybe necessary to install software packages etc.

Each line that starts with a ‘#’ is a comment

EXAMPLE

    # This is a comment
    # cell		alias		[property]
    su.se		.su.se		readwrite
    e.kth.se	.e.kth.se	rw
    cs.cmu.edu	cs		readonly
    andrew.cmu.edu	andrew  #andrew is a readonly alias

FILES
AliasDB

SEE ALSO
CellServDB(5), DynRootDB(5), afsd(8)