<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}I am looking for general advice on replicated volumes. Any suggestions
}would be appreciated.
}
}In particular, I am trying to answer these questions:
}
}1) I want to replicate the volume mounted at /afs/mycell/usr/local/sws.
} What non-obvious things do I need to consider? Do other volumes mounted
} above this volume need to be replicated for this to work?
If you are using replication for fault tolerance,
then yes, you should have a fully replicated path
down to that volume.
}2) This volume's contents change occasionally. Is there any way to automate
} the release of changes to its ReadOnly clones? Do I really have to do
} "vos release" after editing any file?
We use cron to do this at regular intervals (we still sometimes
do it manually when we are in a hurry).
}3) Do ReadWrite/regular mount points have anything to do with this?
} Why is mounting of this volume different than mounting of root.cell,
} which has different mount points for each type of root.cell volume?
I presume you are talking about the convention
of making:
/afs/.cellname be a RW mountpoint for root.cell
this is just a `convenient' convention for access to
the RW copies of replicated volumes.
Basically AFS starts traversing from /afs in RO mode,
it stays RO mode until it sees a RW mountpoint after
which it is in RW mode. So /afs/.cellname switches
you to RW mode early enough to access any volume in
RW mode.
John
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