[OpenAFS] Check if Volume is availabe

[Paul Blackburn]

Hello Klaas,
Perhaps, in addition to testing if the $volume may be "vos examine"ed,
you could also try to cd to the volume mountpoint.

If the volume is available, the cd will return a status code 0
and if not then it returns non-zero.
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cheers
paul                                http://acm.org/~mpb

Klaas Hagemann wrote:

>Hi Paul,
>
>meanwhile i got the same idea...
>does vos examine does right, even if the whole file-server brakes down?
>
>Klaas
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Blackburn" <mpb@est.ibm.com>
>To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Check if Volume is availabe
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>>Hello Klaas,
>>
>>would this do it?
>>
>>vos examine $volume
>>if [ $? = 0 ]; then
>>        echo "volume $volume is available"
>>else
>>        echo "volume $volume is not available" >&2
>>fi
>>--
>>cheers
>>paul                       http://acm.org/~mpb
>>
>>Klaas Hagemann wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>i use afs for home directories. Every user's home directory is one
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>volume.
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>>>Therefor i do not have any read-only replicas of these volumes conaining
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>a
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>>>home directory.
>>>How can i check on the client, if the volume with the home-directory is
>>>available? I want to use a startupscript, which checks the avaiability
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>for
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>>>the volume with the home directory and creates a local home-directory if
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>the
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>>>afs-volume is not available.
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
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