I'm building some simple, automated test environments on VMs, where I really
don't care about performance, just basic functionality and I was trying to
be lazy and created by /vicep partitions with mkdir.
When I went to create root.afs, the volserver did not like this:
[r...@fhcore etc]# vos create fhcore.boot.efs /vicepa root.afs -noauth
vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on the server
[r...@fhcore etc]# ll -d /vicepa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 14:40 /vicepa
[r...@fhcore etc]# df /vicepa
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
18187836 1779896 15469140 11% /
Is it not possible to use plain old directories for the /vicep partitions?
Anecdotally, I was told they work, but I suspect there's some slight of
hand required to use them.
If they have to be real devices, I can obviously handle that, but this is
just for a dataless test environment.
If it matters, this is using OpenAFS 1.4.12 on CentOS 5.4 x86_64.
