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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:44:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum discrepancy
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> makes it sound like the -a option takes precedence
> over cs and ndb.  But the code for _autdial() in
> util.c looks for cs first and if it's there, the
> -a option is ignored.  (In p9p, -a seems to be ignored
> altogether.)
>
> Which way should it be?  I'd prefer if -a took precedence,
> but if the existing behavior is really what's wanted,
> then I suggest we change the man page so it's more clear
> that's what's happening.

it seems like this code is being very sly.
i think the problem the code is working around
is that if you first connect to the local machine
and later want to mount sources, you will fail
since the auth server you've specified in -a won't
auth sources.  (at least that's how i read the comment,
if i squint a bit.)

also, if you were to smarten up -a to take an
authdom / authserver pair, e.g. -a coraid.com!tyty.coraid.com
it could still cause trouble if ndb were updated
while you were running  one would expect cs to
fix things up, but it wouldn't.

is this a problem with a 9vx setup?  perhaps
getting cs looking at the right data is the real
problem?

- erik