[OpenAFS] Directory layout for new cells

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:30:24 -0500 (EST)


On 15 Nov 2000, Sam Hartman wrote:

> afs-rootvol - create root.cell and populate root.afs
> 
> I am not quite sure where to integrate root.afs creation, as you want
> to do that before starting an AFS client on the server.  Annoyingly
> you cannot get tokens before loading the kernel module.  I don't want
> to depend on a particular aklog/klog/whatever.  I may add root.afs
> creation to afs-newcell, asserting that at least initially the primary
> db server is also a fileserver.

It would seem that the obvious way to do this would be to use a tool which
allows you to create volume dumps, and then 'vos restare' such a dump onto
the fileserver.