[OpenAFS] Read-only issues

[Derek Harkness]

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Correct I'm replicating my home volumes.  My solution to not having 
read-write replication is just releasing the volumes every couple of 
minutes or whenever they need to be released.  But if that isn't 
possible or not recommended then AFS is really quite useless for user 
home directories.  The whole we're moving to AFS was to offer fully 
redundant home space, if a server crashed the rw volumes on would go 
off-line and the users would switch to the read-only copies allowing 
them to at least read the files.

Derek

On Nov 1, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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.
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