[OpenAFS] Moving content of /vicep w/o 'vos {backup,restore}?

[Christof Hanke]

Do you use a NAMEI-fileserver ?
If yes,
you can move the files (while the fileserver being down.).
Just make sure you preserve all the unix file-attributes, so use 
something like
cd /vicep<old>
tar -cf - | tar -C /vicep<new> -x
Then startup the fileserver again.

I have never used an inode server and don't know what happens if you try 
that above, but I guess it will destroy all your data.
Christof


Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I need to move my /vicepb to another partirtion due to space
> restrictions.
> 
> I have to partitions that needs to be swapped:
> 
> 1. /dev/md/2 => /vicepb   => 267G, 208G free, 45G used
> 2. /dev/md/1 => /var/mail => 133G,  63G free, 63G used
> 
> The problem is that /var/mail is always getting full (I have
> bacula backup files and other stuff there as well in a hidden
> directory due to space restrictions on the rest of the filesystems).
> 
> 
> The VICEPb will probably NEVER (in the near future) get
> above 133Gb. So I'd like to swap the filesystems so that
> VICEPb uses /dev/md/1 and vise versa....
> 
> But I'd like to do this as 'quickly' and 'painless' as
> possible. It's easier and quicker to backup the mail directory
> to tape, mkfs it and 'cd /vicepb && find | cpio -vp /var/mail'.
> Naturaly with the file- and mailserver (etc!) down...
> 
> 
> But will the fileserver like this? Will all AFS specifics (ACLs etc)
> be preserved? I've learned that you should _NEVER_ touch any files
> in the VICEP directories... ?
> 
> Doing a 'vos backup ; vos remove ; vos restore' will take ages
> and so will a 'vos move' (provided I put the /dev/md/1 partition
> as /vicepa temporarily) and I don't want to risk that the filesystem
> I'm using as a temporary storage fails/crashes. Happened once before
> when i lost the /vicepb - luckily I had a extreamly resent full backup
> on tape that time, but it took a day or two to do the restore.
> 
> 
> I'm quite sure that I've seen this question before, but I've
> been looking for an hour or more for it and haven't found anything.
> Google isn't a friend of mine so to speak :).
> 
> 
> OpenAFS fileserver is (still!) 1.2.11. All client software etc
> is 1.4.0, kernel and it's module is 2.6.12.4/1.3.87.
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