[OpenAFS-devel] Read-only file system

[Harald Barth]

> Does this mean that since I now have RO volumes, when I go into my home 
> directory (the home volume mounted to /afs/ourcell/home), that it finds 
> the RO replicated copy on our other server (donjulio) and since that's 
> where I'm accessing it, that if I try to write to it I will get 
> "Read-Only filesystem"? Surely, this can't be!

Yes it is like that. If you want to "break out" of that, you have to
go through a read-write mountpoint. I don't know why you need/want ro
copies of your home volume(s), but if you want to write in your home,
you need to go there through a rw mountpoint.

Harald.