[OpenAFS] networking thought/question

[seph]

Charles Clancy <security@xauth.net> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tim C. wrote:
>
>>        server fs1.afs partition /vicepa RW Site
>>        server fs1.afs partition /vicepa RO Site
>
> What purpose does that serve?  That RO copy seems to be just wasting drive
> space.  If it were on a different partition, IMHO, it would at least have
> debatable value.

As it's a clone, it takes up very little disk space.

Further, if you don't have it, then you'd be depending on server2, as
afs does not failover to using the RWs if the ROs are unavailable.

seph