[OpenAFS] can not change a backup or readonly volume

[Derrick J Brashear]

> [bob@raven]~% klog admin
> Password:

I assume admin isn't in the UserList on the fileserver. Log into the 
fileserver itself and bos adduser localhost admin -localauth

> [bob@raven]~% vos create -server add.edu -partition /vicepe -cell .mycell.edu -name add-afs
> vsu_ClientInit: Could not get afs tokens, running unauthenticated.
> Could not get an Id for volume emodel-afs
> VLDB: no permission access for call
> Error in vos create command.
> VLDB: no permission access for call
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> Esther Filderman <mizmoose@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, you're rather confused here.
>>
>> Cells are not RW and RO.  Volumes can be, if RO clones are created of
>> RW volumes.
>>
>> By default when a cell is created there is a RW tree and a RO tree.
>> /afs/yourcell.com/foo is RO
>> /afs/.yourcell.com/foo is RW
>>
>> Note the . before the cell name.
>>
>> Each server does not need to be one volume. Most people put multiple
>> volumes on as many servers as they want.  Adding a new server to a
>> cell is not the same as adding new volumes.  One is physical
>> [hardware, an actual machine], one is more logical [a section of disk
>> space that AFS sees as a volume].
>>
>> When you created your cell you should have had a step where you
>> created a RO clone [vos addsite; vos release] of root.afs and
>> root.cell.  This is where your RW and RO trees were created.
>>
>> If you skipped this step you missed an important part of your cell creation.
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:50:52 -0500, rc647bob@netscape.net
>> <rc647bob@netscape.net> wrote:
>>> Esther Filderman <mizmoose@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The simplest question is:  is /afs/mycell a RO volume?
>>>
>>> What I'm doing is adding another server to an existing cell.  I'm
>>> pretty certain the existing cell is RW since I can actually RW to the current server.  The problem is trying to add the other server to the cell.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> try mounting at /afs/.mycell/etc.  Then release your RW volume.
>>>
>>> ok, so this is my result:
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> fs mkmount -dir /afs/mycell/myserver2-afs -vol 536571001 -cell mycell; vos release -id 536571001
>>> fs: You can not change a backup or readonly volume
>>> Volume 536571001 has no replicas - release operation is meaningless!
>>> VOLSER: illegal operation
>>> Error in vos release command.
>>> VOLSER: illegal operation
>>>
>>
>> Your result is useless since this is not what I asked you to do.  I
>> asked you to mount at /afs/.mycell/etc not /afs/mycell/etc, then
>> release root.cell.
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