[OpenAFS] Migration from AFS v3.4

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jonathan Wheeler wrote:

> I have inherited an AFS installation that is running Transarc AFS version
> 3.4 and I am anxious (as you might expect) to migrate it to OpenAFS.  I
> understand that there are differences in the database formats between AFS
> versions 3.4 and >=3.5/OpenAFS which require going via AFS version 3.5.

Untrue. You do need to shut down all of your 3.4 database services, then
bring them all back on as 3.5 or later (OpenAFS counts as later); you
can't mix 3.4 and earlier with 3.5 and later.

> Can someone confirm that and warn me of any likely problems that I might
> see ?  I do not think that I have AFS 3.5 or any documentation for it
> available, so any help with that would be useful as well.