[OpenAFS] vos examine oddity

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:28:03 -0500


On Friday, January 28, 2005 08:16:13 PM -0700 Dexter Kimball <dhk@ccre.com> 
wrote:

> Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>> It is about the volume being examined, but what it tells you are that
>> volume's relations to other volumes in the same "volume group" on the
>> fileserver.  Recall that a volume group is essentially a set
>> of volumes
>> that share inodes (through cloning and copy-on-write).
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  Let me see if I got it right.  (Ever use
> the automated flight info line for United?  I'm beginning to sound like
> same.)
>
> Sharing inodes entails "on same fileserver/partition," so all of the
> information about the volume group pertains only to volumes found on the
> same fileserver and partition as the volume being examined.

Exactly.