On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Thomas> Please note: this works only on namei fileservers.
> 
> This is a *very* interesting new feature, and one we can make very
> creative use of, however, we're currently a Solaris fileserver shop,
> and we won't have namei fileservers anytime soon.
> 
> Why can't this be used with non-namei fileservers?  Is there something
> fundamental about the patch that only works with namei, or was it
> simply not tested with non-namei?

converting the RO to an RW Volume consists mainly of three parts:
- converting the volume special files, e.g. the content of the info file 
  and a kind of renaming of the all special files  
- converting the volume header file, which contains the inodes of the 
  volume special files 
- replacing the vldb entry for the volume

I have only dealt with the namei fileserver because
- it was part of Hartmut's changes to MR-AFS
- we don't need it for non-namei fileservers.

I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement it for non-namei 
servers, but I think, it shouldn't be expensive.

Thomas.
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Thomas M�ller, TU Chemnitz, URZ, D-09107 Chemnitz
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