[OpenAFS] Read-only issues

[Todd M. Lewis]

Derek Harkness wrote:
> 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.

[Sigh] This is not recommended.

> But if that isn't possible or not recommended then AFS is really
> quite useless for user home directories.

Actually, AFS is really quite usefull for user home directories for a 
host of reasons you may not be aware of yet. But it doesn't do what 
you're trying to do in this case.

> 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.

That would be a good solution if (1) servers were unreliable enough to 
justify that kind of effort and (2) AFS worked that way. Neither of 
those things is true.
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