Juha Jäykkä wrote:

> The situation is this:
> 
> RW version of volume X on volume server A
> RO versions of X on servers A (on same partition as RW copy) and B
> 
> Now users' $HOME is, of course, the RW version (/afs/blablabla/.username)
> and programs using $HOME will complain when A disappears. Those
> accessing the undotted version on the lost server should - to my
> understanding - move over to using server B in a few minutes after A is
> lost, but they do not. Why is this?

As soon as the client comes across a RW volume the path will be a RW
path.  Therefore the clients will not switch.   Are you sure your
clients are really using RO versions of the volume?

Jeffrey Altman

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