Re: AFS documentation

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 12/4/20 9:35 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I was browsing Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst and fs/afs/super.c
> and had a few questions/comments.
> 
> 1.  afs.rst says:
> 
> <<<
> When inserting the driver modules the root cell must be specified along with a
> list of volume location server IP addresses::
> 
> 	modprobe rxrpc
> 	modprobe kafs rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91
> 
> The first module is the AF_RXRPC network protocol driver.  This provides the
> RxRPC remote operation protocol and may also be accessed from userspace.  See:
> 
> 	Documentation/networking/rxrpc.rst
> 
> The second module is the kerberos RxRPC security driver, and the third module
> is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem.
>>>>
> 
> so that above mentions 3 modules but only lists (modprobes) 2 of them.
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> 
> 2.  fs/afs/super.c seems to be willing to parse "source=" (Opt_source).
> 
> Can you tell me the format & meaning of that mount option?
> and maybe even add it to the doc. file?

Ah, I see that source= is a general fs mount option.  Never mind on that one.  :)


-- 
~Randy