[OpenAFS] replica server not "failing over" ?

[James Schmidt]

Ahhhh.  I thought I had already done this.  Works like a champ now.
Thanks to everyone for their help!

Regards,
James


On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, John Koyle wrote:

> I had this same problem recently and wondered what the problem was.
> Digging through the AFS Administrators Guide I found this statement:
>
> "If you are replicating any volumes, you must replicate the root.afs and
> root.cell volumes, preferably at two or three sites each (even if your
> cell only has two or three file server machines). The Cache Manager
> needs to pass through the directories corresponding to the root.afs and
> root.cell volumes as it interprets any pathname. The unavailability of
> these volumes makes all other volumes unavailable too, even if the file
> server machines storing the other volumes are still functioning."
>
> Following these instructions, I did a vos addsite root.afs and root.cell
> to my second server, then vos release root.afs root.cell and fs checkv.
>
> Now when I cd /afs and do fs whereis mydomain.com both servers show up.
> John