[OpenAFS] inserting a mount point

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:22:40PM -0500, David R Boldt wrote:
> is there any way, given the path
> 
>  b/c
> 
> where c is a mount point and b is a directory, to replace directory b 
> with a mount point named "b", without having to unmount and remount c?

Hmm... I guess, you want to avoid downtime or interruption. The easiest
case would be to have the volume where b resides read-only cloned with
all of the accesses going to the clone. Then you can simply replace b
with a mount point and "vos release" the appropiate volume. This should
be almost transparent for clients.

If there is no such read-only clone, I'd suggest the following:
1 create the new "b" volume - volb
2 fs mkm bnew volb
3 fs mkm bnew/c volc
3.1 prepare everything in bnew to be an exact copy of b
4 mv b bold ; mv bnew b

The critical part is 4 - the interruption should be minimal, open files
are not affected (I just tried that, it actually worked.)

Locking the volume containing b and volb might help to catch the race
when it is tried to open a file inbetween the two moves.

I think it depends on what want to achieve.

Bye, Tino.

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