Phillip Moore <[email protected]> writes: > 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. You have to touch a file named AlwaysAttach in the /vicep* directory if it isn't a separate device. It's mentioned in the fileserver(8) man page, but that man page is rather long and it's easy to miss. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
