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	[AFS]: Update the AFS fs documentation.
Update the AFS fs documentation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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			     kAFS: AFS FILESYSTEM
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								     kAFS: AFS FILESYSTEM
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ABOUT
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					Contents:
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					 - Overview.
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					 - Usage.
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					 - Mountpoints.
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					 - Proc filesystem.
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					 - The cell database.
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					 - Security.
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					 - Examples.
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					========
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					OVERVIEW
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					This filesystem provides a fairly simple secure AFS filesystem driver. It is
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					under development and does not yet provide the full feature set.  The features
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					it does support include:
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					 (*) Security (currently only AFS kaserver and KerberosIV tickets).
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					 (*) File reading.
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					 (*) Automounting.
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					It does not yet support the following AFS features:
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					 (*) Write support.
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					 (*) Local caching.
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					 (*) pioctl() system call.
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					COMPILATION
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					The filesystem should be enabled by turning on the kernel configuration
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					options:
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						CONFIG_AF_RXRPC		- The RxRPC protocol transport
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						CONFIG_RXKAD		- The RxRPC Kerberos security handler
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						CONFIG_AFS		- The AFS filesystem
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					Additionally, the following can be turned on to aid debugging:
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						CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_DEBUG	- Permit AF_RXRPC debugging to be enabled
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						CONFIG_AFS_DEBUG	- Permit AFS debugging to be enabled
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					They permit the debugging messages to be turned on dynamically by manipulating
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					the masks in the following files:
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						/sys/module/af_rxrpc/parameters/debug
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						/sys/module/afs/parameters/debug
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This filesystem provides a fairly simple AFS filesystem driver. It is under
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development and only provides very basic facilities. It does not yet support
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the following AFS features:
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	(*) Write support.
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	(*) Communications security.
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	(*) Local caching.
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	(*) pioctl() system call.
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	(*) Automatic mounting of embedded mountpoints.
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USAGE
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					USAGE
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When inserting the driver modules the root cell must be specified along with a
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					When inserting the driver modules the root cell must be specified along with a
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list of volume location server IP addresses:
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					list of volume location server IP addresses:
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	insmod rxrpc.o
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						insmod af_rxrpc.o
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						insmod rxkad.o
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	insmod kafs.o rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91
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						insmod kafs.o rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91
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The first module is a driver for the RxRPC remote operation protocol, and the
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					The first module is the AF_RXRPC network protocol driver.  This provides the
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second is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem.
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					RxRPC remote operation protocol and may also be accessed from userspace.  See:
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						Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
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					The second module is the kerberos RxRPC security driver, and the third module
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					is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem.
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Once the module has been loaded, more modules can be added by the following
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					Once the module has been loaded, more modules can be added by the following
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					procedure:
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	echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
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Where the parameters to the "add" command are the name of a cell and a list of
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					Where the parameters to the "add" command are the name of a cell and a list of
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volume location servers within that cell.
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					volume location servers within that cell, with the latter separated by colons.
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Filesystems can be mounted anywhere by commands similar to the following:
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					Filesystems can be mounted anywhere by commands similar to the following:
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	mount -t afs "#root.afs." /afs
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						mount -t afs "#root.afs." /afs
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	mount -t afs "#root.cell." /afs/cambridge
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						mount -t afs "#root.cell." /afs/cambridge
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  NB: When using this on Linux 2.4, the mount command has to be different,
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      since the filesystem doesn't have access to the device name argument:
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	mount -t afs none /afs -ovol="#root.afs."
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Where the initial character is either a hash or a percent symbol depending on
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					Where the initial character is either a hash or a percent symbol depending on
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whether you definitely want a R/W volume (hash) or whether you'd prefer a R/O
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					whether you definitely want a R/W volume (hash) or whether you'd prefer a R/O
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volume, but are willing to use a R/W volume instead (percent).
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					volume, but are willing to use a R/W volume instead (percent).
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Additional cells can be added through /proc (see later section).
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MOUNTPOINTS
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					MOUNTPOINTS
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AFS has a concept of mountpoints. These are specially formatted symbolic links
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(of the same form as the "device name" passed to mount). kAFS presents these
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					symbolic links (of the same form as the "device name" passed to mount).  kAFS
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to the user as directories that have special properties:
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					presents these to the user as directories that have a follow-link capability
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  (*) They cannot be listed. Running a program like "ls" on them will incur an
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      EREMOTE error (Object is remote).
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      EREMOTE error.
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      the name of the mountpoint to which they point. The "readlink" program
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  (*) They can be mounted on (which symbolic links can't).
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						umount /afs
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PROC FILESYSTEM
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					PROC FILESYSTEM
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The rxrpc module creates a number of files in various places in the /proc
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  (*) A "cells" file that lists cells currently known to the afs module.
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						USE NAME
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						USE STT VLID[0]  VLID[1]  VLID[2]  NAME
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						  1 Val 20000000 20000001 20000002 root.afs
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THE CELL DATABASE
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					THE CELL DATABASE
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The filesystem maintains an internal database of all the cells it knows and
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which the computer belongs is added to the database when insmod is performed
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						       -3 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses.3268
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							2 --alswrv      0     0   \_ keyring: _uid.0
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EXAMPLES
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					EXAMPLES
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Here's what I use to test this. Some of the names and IP addresses are local
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					Here's what I use to test this.  Some of the names and IP addresses are local
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to my internal DNS. My "root.afs" partition has a mount point within it for
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mount -t afs \%root.afs. /afs
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					mount -t afs \%root.afs. /afs
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mount -t afs \%cambridge.redhat.com:root.cell. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/
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					mount -t afs \%cambridge.redhat.com:root.cell. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/
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echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 > /proc/fs/afs/cells 
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mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs/grand.central.org/
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					mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs/grand.central.org/
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mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.archive." /afs/grand.central.org/archive
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					mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.archive." /afs/grand.central.org/archive
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mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.contrib." /afs/grand.central.org/contrib
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					mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.contrib." /afs/grand.central.org/contrib
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mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.software." /afs/grand.central.org/software
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					mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.software." /afs/grand.central.org/software
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mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.user." /afs/grand.central.org/user
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/user
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/software
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/service
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/project
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/doc
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/contrib
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umount /afs/grand.central.org/archive
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umount /afs/grand.central.org
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umount /afs/cambridge.redhat.com
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umount /afs
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					umount /afs
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rmmod kafs
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					rmmod kafs
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					rmmod rxkad
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rmmod rxrpc
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					rmmod rxrpc
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