[OpenAFS-devel] openafs cell and contrib area?

Default aeneous@speakeasy.org
Fri, 03 Nov 2000 21:29:52 -0500


> Jeff wrote:
> Certainly, the right to perform a
> release should depend only on the volume permissions, and not on what
> fileservers the RW and RO sites happen to live on.
> 
> Incorrect.  For example, the maintainer of the server with an RO site
> may have constraints regarding the free space available which he could
> not control if a volume admin could freely re-release any volume with
> an RO already on that site.

Mm.  Interesting point.  Can a server admin adjust the quotas of the volumes 
that have replicas on his server?  If not, he could be in some trouble.

Any thoughts about completing the "minquota" work?  In other words, a 
guaranteed reserved disk usage for a particular volume?