[OpenAFS] root.afs gone, what now?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 3:43 PM -0800 12/2/04, Gabe\\ wrote:
>Hello,
>    I had the RAID subsystem that my root.afs volume was on crash.
>I'll be rebuilding that array. In the mean time is there a way to
>mount /afs. root.afs was the mount point for /afs, so none of the
>other mountpoints are valid. Without  the volume online I can't
>even rename it. Is there a way to make the rest of my volumes
>available

Depending on what clients you have available, you might try
configuring a client to use dynamic root cell.  For instance,
on my Mac10 machine I have the following line in the file
/var/db/openafs/etc/config/afsd.options :

-stat 2000 -dcache 800 -daemons 3 -volumes 70 -dynroot -fakestat-all -afsdb

If you set -dynroot, then your client does not reference the
cell's root.afs volume.  That might work for your case.

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