Howdy! I have a question about dynamic volume duplication across cells.
I'm laying out AFS for the Boulder office of Qualcomm (our main office
is in San Diego); for a number of reasons our site has its own cell.
However, there are portions of the San Diego cell that I need to duplicate
in Boulder; these duplicates should have the same volume names, quotas, and
mount points as the master in San Diego. Also, the files in this hierarchy
(which may contain multiple volumes mounted at different levels) need to
be synchronized to the San Diego masters regularly -- for the sake of the
argument say once a night. Also, San Diego is updating and adding files and
volumes to this hierarchy over time.
My question is this: how can I create an automated mechanism to keep
our tree in sync with San Diego? The mechanism needs to be fairly lightweight
since it will be run frequently, but it needs to be able to detect the
presence of newly created volumes in the San Diego hierarchy.
Desirable but to my knowledge nonexistent functionality which would
simplify the problem for me:
1) an AFS command which returns all the mount points for a given volume
2) a mechanism for constraining file ops like 'find' or 'rdist' to
a single volume
Any solutions/suggestions greatly appreciated.
- Lee
