[OpenAFS] vos remsite

Christopher D. Clausen cclausen@acm.org
Thu, 10 May 2007 13:52:15 -0500


Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2007, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>> Jeff Blaine <jblaine@mitre.org> wrote:
>>> 'vos remsite':
>>>
>>> "This command is useful for removing read-only sites that
>>> were mistakenly created with the vos addsite command, before
>>> the vos release command actually releases them."
>>
>> That seems like a waste of a command.  It would only be used in very
>> rare situations that are otherwise correctable (just vos release and
>> then vos remove.)  And why can't vos remove, vos zap or vos delentry
>> be used to remove a non-released replica?
>
> consider the case that you remsite something temporarily, leave the
> data, and then addsite later when you want clients to see it again...

Okay.  But does that actually work?  I've usually had to vos release 
again to get clients to see the data (perhaps the other sites were at a 
different version of the RO though.)

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