Am 3. April 2012 19:06 schrieb Ken Dreyer <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Jeff Blaine <[email protected]> wrote: >> What have people had success with (existing solutions >> in practice) for making RW volumes "highly available"? > > We have some content in AFS where it's acceptable to have a little bit > of downtime, but we need to be able to recover with a minimum of > hassle if we had an outage. In these cases, we mount the volumes > explicitly as rw, but replicate them "behind the scenes" in cron. We > can then use vos convertROtoRW if we need to quickly recover. > > It has its downsides, and it's not true multi-master RW, but it works > in a pinch. > > - Ken
We use 'vos shadow' in a similar fashion as described by Ken: the RW volume is shadowed at regular intervals and can be switched to in case the main volume is not available. Cheers, Arne _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
