> This is on Debian GNU Linux, with OpenAFS file-server 1.4.2 . Linux -> you use the namei fileserver (and 1.4.2 should be upgraded).
> 1. shut down the OpenAFS file-server in question. > 2. copy the content of /vicep?? partition somewhere safe > 3. re-create ext3 file-system on the affected partition > with better settings (for inodes) > 4. copy the content of /vicep?? partition back > 5. start the fileserver You forgot: 0. Backup ;-) One important thing is to preserve the permissons in the AFSIDat tree because that contains information, too. > I vaguely remember that the file-server needs inode numbers to get to the > files on /vicep??, Only the old inode server. Linux does not use that. > Other option comes to mind: move all the volumes (stored on the partition) > to a different /vicep?? partition (using vos move), shut down the file-server, > re-create the ext3 file-system with better settings, move the volumes back, > start the file-server. That is the very safe option. Btw, you could use xfs instead of ext3, we have not had any trouble with it, it's only faster. Harald. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
