[OpenAFS] ZFS rootdisk note

Paris Holley emailme@parisholley.com
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:07:24 -0500


You dont need to touch any files it should just work...

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On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>  
wrote:

> Jeff Blaine wrote:
>> In case someone else runs into it...
>>
>> Previously on test servers, I would simply mkdir /vicepa
>> and use it for a few volumes.
>>
>> This (silently) will not work on a box with a ZFS rootdisk.
>>
>> logs # vos create 192.168.1.240 /vicepa root.afs -cell foo -noauth
>> vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on the server
>> logs # vos partinfo 192.168.1.240 -noauth
>> logs #
>>
>> You MUST 'zfs create -o mountpoint=/vicepa yourpool/vicepa'
>
> Did you run "touch /vicepa/AlwaysAttach" ?
>
> I doubt this is a ZFS thing. The fileserver process will no mount a / 
> vicep?? folder unless it is a mount point (aka a different partition/ 
> filesystem) or the "AlwaysAttach" file is present in the vicep??
>
> See the fileserver man page for more details:
> http://docs.openafs.org/Reference/8/fileserver.html
>
> Jason
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