For the purposes below, does the backup need to be part of the volume group? Or does the CM just assume that a volume group encompasses the RW and all of its ROs?
- a Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Megacz wrote: >> And does it also mean that the sole purpose of volume groups is to >> know what volumes to get rid of when an RW is removed? > > The VL_GetEntryByName?() RPCs returns the IDs and server locations of > all of the volumes in the requested group. The Windows cache manager > tracks all of the volumes by the group (as of 1.5.21). It does not keep > a separate entry for each volume. > > One of the reasons that the CM tracks the group is so that it can easily > implement the automatic use of the RW volume when a .readonly volume is > requested but doesn't exist. > > Other than knowledge of which volumes make up the group, the CM doesn't > care what the volume IDs are or how they are allocated. > > Jeffrey Altman > Secure Endpoints Inc. > -- PGP/GPG: 5C9F F366 C9CF 2145 E770 B1B8 EFB1 462D A146 C380 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
