[OpenAFS] replica server not "failing over" ?

Tino Schwarze openafs-info.lists@tisc.de
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:12:59 +0100


On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:33:00PM -0600, James Schmidt wrote:

> I've got my two openafs servers, afs1 and afs2.  Afs1 is the primary.
> I've created RO volume replicas on AFS2, and 'vos listvldb' shows the
> correct info, however if I offline afs1, all of the clients time out
> (including AFS2, which is also a client).

> On The Client:
> [root@www2 /]# cd /afs
> [root@www2 afs]# ls -al
> drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         2048 Feb 25 14:55 .mydomain.com
> drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         2048 Feb 25 14:55 mydomain.com
> [root@www2 afs]# cd mydomain.com/       <--- this should be the replicated RO volume, correct?

What does "fs lsmount mydomain.com" say?

> I know that since the secondary AFS server, AFS2, should have a copy
> of the RO volume, I should still be able to CD into this directory and
> read files, correct?

Yes.

Bye, Tino.