Hi, Ok so what you're saying is that I can just make a /vicepa folder and it'll be an afs first partion root. Can it be a symlink? The problem is that I have already a huge RAID mounted as /data and widely used, and I'd like to allocate some space for openafs on this raid. Changing /data to something else is not an option, so can I symlink /vicepa to /data/vicepa or smth like that?
I got that I can't just share my existing data 'as is' - but ok, I can live with that. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Deason Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: Getting started with OpenAFS On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:41:25 +0200 Lars Schimmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 3. do I really need a new fresh partition to start with or I can > > re-use an existing one and just make it available via afs? > > Actually #3 is the most important so let me explain. I have a > > server already and willing to make a large repository available via > > afs. Attaching a new hard drive or even changing partitions is hard > > for me as the servers is remote for me and has plenty of data > > already. So is there any way to make afs use just a folder > > somewhere? Any workarounds? > > You need to spend a partition exclusive for OpenAFS server. OpenAFS > does have its onw structure of files in the server-partitions (but it > is not influenced by "false" files in those partitions). To be clear, I think there are two things being asked here. One question is "do I need a dedicated partition/disk for an AFS partition?" The answer to that is no; you can just create new /vicepX directories, and create the file /vicepa/AlwaysAttach to use them. If you want to use some other partition, just bind-mount (or lofs-mount, etc) /vicepa to /var/foo/bar/baz. The other question is about whether you can use an existing directory structure of data, which which Lars answered. You can use an already-existing partition, but you need to copy your data into AFS; you can't just use it straight from disk. However, there is jhutz's hostafsd (and tafssrv), which does allow for serving existing data via AFS. But as far as I know those haven't been touched in awhile, aren't ready for production use, etc etc. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info :�� T���&j)b� b�өzpJ)ߢ�^��좸!��l��b��(���~�+����Y���b�ا~�����~ȧ~
