[OpenAFS] vos replication being strange.

[Eric Bennett]

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I am at the moment just testing AFS, but this would be the eventual 
production configuration, the idea was to have multiple geographically 
disparate openafs servers to act as redundant filesystem storage in the 
event of any one system failure, do you think it would actually be less 
stable to use AFS than manually rdist'ing the production files around 
the server ring?

Regards
Eric


Chris Huebsch wrote:

> On Sat, 7 May 2005, Eric Bennett wrote:
>
>> You're right, /vicepa on corvus went boom, I have no idea how or why, 
>> but it's definitely gone, it was a loopback file from a local 
>> filesystem and when the system was rebooted the original file 
>> disappeared entirely.
>
>
> A Loopback-file? I hope, you are just testing AFS...
> If you want to "fake" a partition you can use an empty file named
> "AlwaysAttach" in the /vicepX-directory. It will be used as a partition
> even if its not a true  partition.
>
>> Is it possible to copy the volumes from raven or do they need to be
>> remade in their entirety? I've tried vos copy root.afs raven /vicepa
>> root.afs corvus /vicepa -verbose but it just says the volume already
>> exists, so I then tried a syncvldb thinking that perhaps the vldb
>> needed to know there was a problem but it reported successful and
>> still lists corvus' old volumes in listvldb.
>
>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> There are a lot of commands, which manipulate the vl-db (just do a vos
> help).
>
> My favourite command would be "vos convertrototw" (or like that).
>
> If your version does not have this command, try "vos dump" and "vos
> restore" to dump your volumes into a file and restore them as
> rw-volumes.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Chris



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