[OpenAFS] Feature request, sort of

Steve Simmons scs@umich.edu
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:41:30 -0400


On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Carsten Schulz-Key wrote:

> Steve Simmons wrote:
>> This works quite well for our purpose, but if you do a 'vos examine
>> user.name.YYMMDD' you get
>>
>> -------
>> Volume user.elevina.070702 does not exist in VLDB
>
> How about restoring the volume without the '-readonly' flag and  
> adding a
> replica on the same partition, followed by a
> 'fs mkm RESTORE.070702 user.elevina.070702.readonly' ?

That'd work, but it sucks up twice as much disk space, leaves two  
volumes rather than one that we have to remove later, and the savvy  
user could still mount the r/w original.