[OpenAFS] Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:28:58 -0500

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    Then let me clarify my statement.=C2=A0 Such functionality does not e=
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    in OpenAFS.=C2=A0 If someone has written a patch to implement such
    functionality it should be submitted to gerrit.openafs.org and
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    Jeffrey Altman<br>
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    On 2/27/2012 11:20 AM, Arne Wiebalck wrote:
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      <pre wrap=3D"">Wasn't it mentioned at the last AFS workshop in Hamb=
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Hartmut already has a patch that provides this functionality?

Cheers,
 Arne

2012/2/27 Jeffrey Altman <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href=3D"mailt=
o:jaltman@your-file-system.com">&lt;jaltman@your-file-system.com&gt;</a>:=

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The functionality does not exist.

On 2/27/2012 11:00 AM, Lars Schimmer wrote:
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          <pre wrap=3D"">Hi!

Maybe I missed a point or two, but I wish I could remove and unmount a
/vicepX partition while fileserver keeps on running.

The last weeks I needed to redo our iSCSI storages and that implies a
lot of mount/unmount/redo partitions of our OpenAFS fileservers.
Each time I need to add/remove a partition, the safe way was to stop the
OpenAFS fileserver, mount/umount the partition and restart the fileserver=
=2E
As I do not want to be the night owl, I did it in usual work shift -
which did annoy our users as service was broken a few minutes.

Is there any way to do this a better way?

(IMHO DAFS is only for volumes, not partitions, or?)

Thank you.

MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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