[OpenAFS] another set of eyes (or three)
Lee Damon
nomad@stefen.ee.washington.edu
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:41:12 -0800
> > -> Do I need to deinstall it as a DB host before reimaging?
> How many dbservers do you have?
Three, including this one.
> If there are at least three, you can take
> one down without loss of quorum. Unless the machine will be out of service
> for such a long time that you will reconfigure clients, there is no real
> point in removing it from the server-side CellServDB.
The machine will be down for several hours while the root drive is reimaged
but I don't plan to remove it from CellServDB. Just stop the daemons.
> It's possible I missed this part, but you'll want to somehow make sure the
> AFS KeyFile is installed on the reimaged machine.
It's in the saved.tar that is created early in the process.
> Provided you have installed the KeyFile and UserList before starting
> anything up, there is no reason you should need to run anything in noauth
> mode
cool. I've updated the document to show this.
Thanks!
nomad
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