[OpenAFS] Moving top level RO volumes

[Jimmy Engelbrecht]

tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Tino Schwarze) writes:

> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:28:06AM -0400, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
> 
> >    I'd like to move several top level RO volumes from one host to another.
> > Currently I have:
> > 
> > afs1:/afs/lns.mit.edu/user# vos listvol afs1
> > Total number of volumes on server afs1 partition /vicepa: 4
> > root.afs.readonly                 536870913 RO         36 K On-line
> > root.cell.readonly                536870916 RO          5 K On-line
> > user.bldg-26.readonly             536870989 RO          4 K On-line
> > user.bldg-6.readonly              536870992 RO          3 K On-line
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I guess that you cannot move readonly volumes. Just
> "vos addsite" them to the new server and "vos remsite" them from afs1.

You can and should move the read-only volumes!

If you do vos remove (NEVER USE REMSITE!!!) and vos release the data will
be temporary unavailable which is not what you want.

/Jimmy