[OpenAFS] 'replication'

[Rubino Geiß]

> This was more or less just a test on how it's done. Any way, 
> I mounted my readonly replica on another directory, and 
> discovered that it's not real time replication! Ie, the files are OLD.

That's what they supposed to be, without vos release XXX...

> 
> Did I set it up wrongly, or is this expected (to run 'vos 
> release ...')? 

Yes, vos release is required.


Anyway, does anyone know a setup or trick to make a RO volume a RW
volume?

Some time ago there was a reference to some "admin hack" or something
like that on this list, but nothing more. I'd like to regularly do vos
releases on a set of volumes and in case of disaster switch to the RO as
RW volumes... is possible or do we have to "hack" openAFS for that? -- I
know backups do the trick (of some kind of disaster recovery; and we do
daily  backups), but restoring > 100GB will cause significant outage!