[OpenAFS] Migration from Transarc to OpenAFS

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Roel Flora wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has done a migration from Transarc to  
> OpenAFS
> recently and can provide some suggestions on how to do the  
> migration smoothly.
> We have a large number of existing users and around 1 Terabyte of data
> to move. I expect that there will be some downtime that is  
> necessary while
> we are doing the migration, but we would like to minimize the downtime
> if possible.

The only issues I'm aware of are:

1. if you are switching to "namei" fileservers, you'll need to dump  
and reload all your volumes.  (You would have to build OpenAFS from  
source to do this; the Solaris build defaults to "inode", which is  
compatible.)

2. Unless built with --enable-transarc-paths (IIRC), the client and  
server configuration file locations have changed.  Very roughly (i.e.  
don't bet your cell on this without checking docs), /usr/afs is /usr/ 
local/etc/openafs/server and /usr/vice/etc is /usr/local/etc/afs.

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