Cron has no more knowledge about when the r/w volume is in a consistent state than does AFS. Only the person(s) who make the changes to the r/w volume know when it's ready to release.
Steve Simmons ITS Unix Support/SCS Admins On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 9:22 AM Andreas Ladanyi <andreas.lada...@kit.edu> wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > >> it is common an openafs admin has to sync an ro volume after something > >> is added to rw volume. This is done by the vos release command. I think > >> its the only way. Are there automatic sync functions in the vol / fs > server. > > The risk of automated volume releases is that the automated system does > > not know when the volume contents are in a consistent and quiescent > state. > > ok, but vos release "knows" them ? > > Is there something against a crontab script as root with vos lock and > vos release to all volumes (with an ro site) ? > > > > > Sites often use remctl to grant end users the ability to release their > > own volumes. > > > > Automated releases of RO volumes are a poor substitute for replicated RW > > volumes. RW replication is a feature which was never completed for > OpenAFS. > > > > Jeffrey Altman > > > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
