[OpenAFS] With 1.4.12, can /vicep partitions be plain directories?

[Phillip Moore]

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I'm building some simple, automated test environments on VMs, where I really
don't care about performance, just basic functionality and I was trying to
be lazy and created by /vicep partitions with mkdir.

When I went to create root.afs, the volserver did not like this:

[root@fhcore etc]# vos create fhcore.boot.efs /vicepa root.afs -noauth
vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on the server
[root@fhcore etc]# ll -d /vicepa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 14:40 /vicepa
[root@fhcore etc]# df /vicepa
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      18187836   1779896  15469140  11% /

Is it not possible to use plain old directories for the /vicep partitions?
 Anecdotally, I was told they work, but I suspect there's some slight of
hand required to use them.

If they have to be real devices, I can obviously handle that, but this is
just for a dataless test environment.

If it matters, this is using OpenAFS 1.4.12 on CentOS 5.4 x86_64.

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eally don't care about performance, just basic functionality and I was =
trying to be lazy and created by /vicep partitions with mkdir.<div><br></di=
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<div>When I went to create root.afs, the volserver did not like this:</div>=
<div><br></div><div><div>[root@fhcore etc]# vos create fhcore.boot.efs /vic=
epa root.afs -noauth</div><div>vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on th=
e server</div>
<div>[root@fhcore etc]# ll -d /vicepa</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096=
 Sep 28 14:40 /vicepa</div><div>[root@fhcore etc]# df /vicepa</div><div>Fil=
esystem =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1K-blocks =A0 =A0 =A0Used Available Use% Mounte=
d on</div><div>
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00</div><div>=A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A018187836 =A0 1779896 =A015469140 =A011% /</div></div><div><b=
r></div><div>Is it not possible to use plain old directories for the /vicep=
 partitions? =A0Anecdotally, I was told they work, but I suspect there&#39;=
s some slight of hand required to use them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If they have to be real devices, I can obviously handle=
 that, but this is just for a dataless test environment.</div><div><br></di=
v><div>If it matters, this is using OpenAFS 1.4.12 on CentOS 5.4 x86_64.</d=
iv>

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