[OpenAFS] Read-only issues

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Derek Harkness wrote:

> I'm a little confused.  Why does my home volume keep switching to read-only, 
> whenever I create a read-only replica of my root.cell?  Don't I need a

because you replicated your home directory. in general that's not done, 
because read-write replication doesn't exist in afs.

> replica of my root.cell?  What happens if I don't have a replica and my the 
> server hosting the root.cell goes down?  Do I loose access to my entire AFS 
> cell?  I thought the whole idea was that the AFS client would automagically 
> pick which volume to use based on how the file was being accessed.  In other 
> words it would automatically switch from the read-only to the read-write 
> volume when I open a file with write access.

nope.