[OpenAFS] Automatic move of volumes

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:56:36 -0400


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On 10/24/07, Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/24/07, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > perl scripts exist to do it and I think have been posted here in the
> past;
> > they may even deal with the "RO already exists" case.
> >
>
> It would be nice if there were a repository of publically available
> contrib stuff like that.
>
> > the interesting case is where the RW has unreleased changes and you want
> to
> > recreate the ROs as they are now. i don't know of distributed tools to
> do
> > this.
> >
>
> I hadn't really thought about people intentionally keeping their RWs &
> ROs out of sync w/each other.  I'm not clear why someone would want to
> do that -- could you elaborate?


using the RW as a the "beta" copy of data and releasing the changes after
testing them. i know of web backend services using AFS set up this way.

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Jenkins</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:steven.jenkins@gmail.com">steven.jenkins@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/24/07, Derrick Brashear &lt;<a href="mailto:shadow@gmail.com">shadow@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>...<br>&gt; perl scripts exist to do it and I think have been posted here in the past;<br>&gt; they may even deal with the &quot;RO already exists&quot; case.
<br>&gt;<br><br>It would be nice if there were a repository of publically available<br>contrib stuff like that.<br><br>&gt; the interesting case is where the RW has unreleased changes and you want to<br>&gt; recreate the ROs as they are now. i don&#39;t know of distributed tools to do
<br>&gt; this.<br>&gt;<br><br>I hadn&#39;t really thought about people intentionally keeping their RWs &amp;<br>ROs out of sync w/each other.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#39;m not clear why someone would want to<br>do that -- could you elaborate?
</blockquote><div><br>using the RW as a the &quot;beta&quot; copy of data and releasing the changes after testing them. i know of web backend services using AFS set up this way.<br><br></div><br></div><br>

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