OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Global and Cell Considerations
• Consider the disk space a fileset requires before setting up filesets.
2.4.6 Using@sys and @host Variables
Follow the suggested conventions in the when using the @sys and @host variables in
certain pathnames. When the DFS Cache Manager encounters one of these variables, it
substitutes a string that consists of the local machine’s architecture and operating system
type for @sys or the hostname for @host, causing a certain directory to be used. Using
@sys and @host is helpful when you are constructing symbolic links from the local disk
to DFS. You can create identical symbolic links on all machines, but each machine
transparently accesses the files appropriate to its system name or hostname. The DFS cm
sysname command sets and displays the current value for @sys.
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