afs: Detect cell aliases 1 - Cells with root volumes
Put in the first phase of cell alias detection. This part handles alias detection for cells that have root.cell volumes (which is expected to be likely). When a cell becomes newly active, it is probed for its root.cell volume, and if it has one, this volume is compared against other root.cell volumes to find out if the list of fileserver UUIDs have any in common - and if that's the case, do the address lists of those fileservers have any addresses in common. If they do, the new cell is adjudged to be an alias of the old cell and the old cell is used instead. Comparing is aided by the server list in struct afs_server_list being sorted in UUID order and the addresses in the fileserver address lists being sorted in address order. The cell then retains the afs_volume object for the root.cell volume, even if it's not mounted for future alias checking. This necessary because: (1) Whilst fileservers have UUIDs that are meant to be globally unique, in ...
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