[OpenAFS] my questions about AFS replication volume

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:17:41 -0700


Boris H <boris@openow.net> writes:

> In the AFS Documents, I just found how to implement the Read-Only
> replication volumes. I need the RW replication volumes, because my data
> is always changing and it is very important to prevent data
> losing. Could OpenAFS support multiple replication volumes, just like
> Coda?

No.  There's no such thing in AFS as RW replication volumes; all replicas
are read-only by definition.

You can regularly release volumes from cron, of course, and for some
applications that's sufficient.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>