I think that if you created it as a clone on the same partition, it would work fine, but whenever you move the parent volume, or move the clone, it would cease to be a clone. I don't think anything actually cares if a clone exists, since it all does CopyOnWrite for all changes.
I figured on a "vos copy volname server part volname server part" with server and partition defaulting reasonably. Would be nice if there were some reasonable way to do a "vos merge server part vol1 vol2" that would recombine a couple of volumes. Unfortunately, that would likely be a fairly expensive operation, since it would have to compare every file in a pair of volumes. Without that though, as soon as you had multiple clones, you couldn't move the volumes to a different server without using X * quotaused. Adding a "vos copy" routine should be relatively easy to do. -- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Niksch [mailto:nik@;zurich.ibm.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] vos dump busying out the volume > while dumping... > > > So something like > > vos move ... -copy <new volume name> > > which would create a copy on the same or some other server:partition, > but give it a different name and keep the original around? > Unfortunately, even if it were on the same server:partition, it > couldn't just be a clone if you cannot track it in the vldb, right? > > -- > Michael Niksch /Zurich/IBM @ IBMCH > IBM Zurich Research Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Saeumerstrasse 4 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~nik/ > CH-8803 Rueschlikon / Switzerland P: +41-1-724-8913 F: +41-1-724-8080 > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
