[OpenAFS] Automatic move of volumes

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:25 , Steven Jenkins wrote:

> I sort of understand this need, but I suggest that it's caused by poor
> namespace management, and that the solution should be to improve that
> rather than try to keep your RWs and ROs out of sync with each other.

I think you're misunderstanding; the RO vs RW is only one component  
of such a scheme.  (Except in the case of simple htdocs staging.)

In our environment, software collections are arranged into releases;  
the vast majority of machines subscribe to the omega release, test  
machines may subscribe to alpha / beta / gamma / various custom/ 
testing release snapshots (and fall back to omega if those don't  
exist), development machines may subscribe to the RW volume instead  
of the RO to get the most up to date code instead of a snapshot.   
(Omega fallback still works here, as the RW omega release should  
always match the RO except (a) when it's a brand new package, so  
there is no RO (b) in the middle of an omega release update, which is  
typically very short because all you're doing is moving symlinks  
around.)

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH