[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS-info digest, Vol 1 #2033 - 2 msgs

[Bob Cook]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

>On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:13:42 -0400 Derrick J Brashear
><shadow@dementia.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, giovanni bracco wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to prevent users to access a selected AFS volume for some
>>> time without affecting the access to the other volumes on the same or on
>>> other file servers & partitions?
>>>
>>> I would like also to be able to stop any current activity on the volume
>>> content.
>>>
>>> In our AFS cell I have observed that there is a small numer of Volumes
>>> that appear as "Off-line" from vos examine or vos listvol command.
>>> Typically these "Off-line" volume have another version which is marked
>>> "On-line" on a different server/partition.
>>> I have the impression that the only way to set a volume "off-line" is
>>> from command vos restore -offline, is that true?
>>> So off-line ha probably nothing to do with what I am looking for.
>>
>> You can use the hidden vos offline command.
>
>You can, but be aware that this status is represented as state in the
>running fileserver, and will be lost if the fileserver restarts.

You could also try renaming the volume.

Bob Cook
bobcook@slac.stanford.edu