[OpenAFS] Many partitions: How?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:21:25PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> Every volume exists on exactly one partition somewhere (well,
> replicated volumes will have multiple copies, each on a different
> server, but we'll ignore that detail for the moment).  The exact
> location of a volume is invisible to clients -- if you move
> users.user_a from one location to another, user_a won't even notice --
> his client will continue to be able to access the volume, even during
> the move.  However, you as an administrator need to decide where each
> volume will be located, keep track of the amount of space in use, and
> move volumes as necessary.

If you don't want to move volumes manually, you can also use the
balancer tool. It will distribute volumes across multiple partitions and
servers.

HTH! Tino.