[OpenAFS] new RW root.cell

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Susan Litzinger wrote:
> In order to get our current installation in sync, I attempted to create
> another RO root.cell on velma in the same partition that the RW is on but I
> am unable to do that and get the error that Multiple ROs on a single server
> aren't allowed.  Will I cause problems if I remove the current RO (that is
> on the wrong partition) then create a new one in the correct partition?

Should not cause problems.

> Then, if we move the RW root.cell to afs-vmc, the release should work?
> Here is the results of 'vos examine root.cell' for our site:

Assuming you move it to afs-vmc's vicepga, that should work.

-Ben

> [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos examine root.cell
> vsu_ClientInit: Could not get afs tokens, running unauthenticated.
> root.cell                         537176384 RW         49 K  On-line
>     velma.psc.edu /vicepca
>     RWrite  537176384 ROnly          0 Backup  537176401
>     MaxQuota      20000 K
>     Creation    Tue Nov 29 19:01:08 2005
>     Copy        Fri Jun  8 16:24:57 2012
>     Backup      Sat Mar  2 02:32:38 2019
>     Last Access Thu Mar  7 10:43:30 2019
>     Last Update Thu Apr  5 14:20:25 2018
>     239 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)
> 
>     RWrite: 537176384     ROnly: 537176385     Backup: 537176401
>     number of sites -> 5
>        server velma.psc.edu partition /vicepca RW Site
>        server daphne.psc.edu partition /vicepdc RO Site
>        server velma.psc.edu partition /vicepcb RO Site
>        server scooby.psc.edu partition /vicepac RO Site
>        server afs-vmc.psc.edu partition /vicepga RO Site  -- Not released
> 
> Thanks for the help -- Susan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:11 PM Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 3/6/2019 3:56 PM, Susan Litzinger wrote:
> > > We are updating our very old AFS servers and chose to create new,
> > > updated systems then migrate all the volumes over and eventually just
> > > turn the older ones off.
> > >
> > > We've moved everything but the root.cell volumes.  We have one RW
> > > root.cell on an older server and would like to have a RW root.cell on a
> > > new server before turning the older one off.  My co-worker gave this a
> > > try and it allowed her to run 'vos addsite' but did not allow her to
> > > 'vos release' the new RW root.cell.  She got this error:
> > >
> > > root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos addsite afs-vmc.psc.edu
> > > <http://afs-vmc.psc.edu> /vicepga
> > > root.cell -localauth
> > > Added replication site afs-vmc.psc.edu <http://afs-vmc.psc.edu> /vicepga
> > > for volume root.cell
> > > [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos release root.cell -localauth
> > > Failed to clone the volume 537176384
> > > : Invalid cross-device link
> > > Error in vos release command.
> > > Clone volume is not in the same partition as the read-write volume.
> >
> >
> > Susan,
> >
> > The problem with root.cell is on velma.  The RW and RO must be on the
> > same partition.
> >
> > Jeffrey Altman
> >
> >