[OpenAFS] Moving root.*.readonly from /vicepa to /vicepb
Broughton, Travis V
tvb@intel.com
Tue, 28 May 2002 08:01:17 -0700
>
> "Broughton, Travis V" <tvb@intel.com> writes:
>
> > Don't use addsite and remsite on released volumes. You
> want remove. Once
> > you've released the volume, 'vos remsite' will remove the
> VLDB pointer but
> > not the on-disk data.
>
> Um, you have to use addsite to add new sites... So, "don't use
> addsite" seems a bit strong.
D'oh. You're right -- I didn't mean to include "addsite"; I was thinking of
'don't use remsite or zap', but zap doesn't really apply here.
> > Also, you can't have multiple RO instances on a single
> server, so addsite
> > before remsite/remove won't (shouldn't) work.
>
> I don't believe this is correct. It is certainly true that it doesn't
> buy you much in terms of reliability or failover if you have multiple
> RO instances on a single server, but there is no prohibition in the
> protocol or implementation that would limit this.
>
Did something change between IBM AFS and OpenAFS?
auslx043:tvb> vos exa root.cell
root.cell 536870915 RW 25 K On-line
auscad01.an.intel.com /vicepa
RWrite 536870915 ROnly 536870916 Backup 536870917
MaxQuota 10000 K
Creation Fri Mar 10 08:25:54 2000
Last Update Mon Jan 21 11:16:58 2002
301 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)
RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 Backup: 536870917
number of sites -> 7
server auscad01.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RW Site
server ausafs01.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RO Site
server ausafs02.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RO Site
server auscad02.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RO Site
server auscad01.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RO Site
server ausafs07.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RO Site
server ausafs08.an.intel.com partition /vicepa RO Site
auslx043:tvb> vos addsite auscad01 b root.cell
RO already exists on partition /vicepa. Multiple ROs on a single server
aren't allowed
VOLSER: illegal operation
Error in vos addsite command.
VOLSER: illegal operation
-tvb