[OpenAFS] Re: Rsync-ing a vice* partition

[Dave Botsch]

I wonder if one could reasonably put /usr/afs and all the /vicep*
partitions on DRBD, and then fail those along with the IP address over
to the other server (corosync, pacemaker).

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:38:45PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> On 1/11/13 10:15 AM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> >On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:02:26 -0500
> >Garance A Drosihn<drosih@rpi.edu>  wrote:
> >
> >>As far as AFS is concerned, would it be safe and reasonable
> >>to use rsync to duplicate all files on /vicepa to /nextpa,
> >>dismount both partitions, and then mount what was /nextpa
> >>as /vicepa?  Or is that playing with fire, such that it'd be
> >>much safer to move the AFS volumes via standard AFS commands
> >>while AFS is running?
> >
> >I assume it's not relevant here, but just in case and for the
> >archives... this is of course dependant on the fileserver
> > backend. If you happen to have any 'inode' fileservers running
> > (if you're not running a commercial unix, you don't have any),
> > this is not adequate for them.
> 
> 
> yes, I should have mentioned that these are all namei-based
> fileservers, running on redhat linux.  Using ext3 filesystems,
> if I remember right.
> 
> 
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