On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:42, [email protected] wrote: > The "recent news" section of the openafs.org home page says that the > recent release provides "disconnected AFS," something that interests > me very much. But I cannot find anything about disconnected operation > in the documentation.
It's only in the 1.5 development series, and there isn't much documentation currently available. Here's a quick summary... The code needs to be built with --enabled-disconnected (which Mac OS X builds, and some Linux packages already have enabled). Before working offline, you first need to populate your cache with something like: find /path/of/files/i/want/while/disconnected | xargs cat > /dev/null Then fs discon offline will disconnect you from the AFS fileservers. You can then modify any of the files you populated earlier and fs discon online will replay any changes you have made back to the fileserver. The one caveat, currently, is that your cache is not preserved across reboots. If you reboot, or if your machine crashes, before you go back online, then any changes you made locally will be lost. Cheers, Simon. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
