On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:07:43PM +0100, Mike W Ellwood wrote:
> However, one benefit that we as a site were hoping to get from AFS
> seems not to be quite as good as we had thought: replication of
> volumes.
>
> Unless I am missing something, one can only replicate read-only copies
> of volumes. That is quite a restriction.
...
> Just to give me a flavour of what I might possibly be missing,
> would anyone care to (briefly) summarise their own strategy regarding,
> or use of, AFS volume replication?
Jeff Hutzelman said some while ago that he had a tool which would
to some extent automate the release of changed volumes, but I
don't think he's ever brought it out.
Many of our users put things into AFS only to get them to the
web pages, so they use ftp or something similar to put the pages
into the volume. They know nothing about replication, and don't
want to know. For important volumes we have cron jobs which do
if [ -f /some-mount-point/fred/releaseme ]; then
rm /some-mount-point/fred/releaseme
vos rel fred -f
fi
But this is obviously too fiddly for a large number of volumes.
And, of course, you have the users who touch the wrong file or
misspell it, no matter how many handy little scripts you give them...
-- Owen
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