[OpenAFS] Vos functions and clones and shadows

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Steve Simmons wrote:

>
> On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
>
>> According to the FAQ, shadow volumes which are not live do not appear
>> in the VLDB.  Clones created by 'vos clone' are in the VLDB, but
>> they will be removed from the VLDB if a volume is deleted by
>> 'vos remove'.
>
> I thought that was what would happen, but I've been corrected here - manually 
> named clones persist after the deletion/move of the volume, and will have to 
> be removed explicitly.

right.

> Once a dangling clone (nice term) has been created, it's pretty much not a 
> clone any more. In some senses, it becomes a full production volume. 
> However... this is one of those edge condition things that we'd like to get 
> settled out based on broader input from the community. Unlike other normal

the problem is it lives in the volume group of its parent, so it's a 
halfling. parent's gone, but... yeah, like you say

> Dan Hyde can probably respond to this more accurately than I can, but I 
> believe that we have modified vos syncvldb such that it does not put shadows 
> into the vldb unless you use an additional switch which we have created.

put the patches you have in rt.
we'll figure out what can and should get merged.