[OpenAFS] convertROtoRW safe on inode?

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:57:53 -0400


>I was reading through some of the posted talks from the AFS best 
>practices conference and saw something that mentioned vos convertROtoRW 
>only working on namei fileservers?  Is this true?  Does it just not work 
>on inode?  Or do "Bad Things" (TM) happen when its used on inode 
>fileservers?

Yes, this is true (as Russ already mentioned).  If you try using it on
an inode fileserver, it will just return an error, so it's safe to
try it out.

Basically ... a bunch of internal things inside of a volume need to
be mucked with to make convertROtoRW work.  That code was written for
namei fileservers ... it has not been written for inode fileservers.

--Ken