On 1/11/13 10:15 AM, Andrew Deason wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:02:26 -0500
Garance A Drosihn<[email protected]>  wrote:

As far as AFS is concerned, would it be safe and reasonable
to use rsync to duplicate all files on /vicepa to /nextpa,
dismount both partitions, and then mount what was /nextpa
as /vicepa?  Or is that playing with fire, such that it'd be
much safer to move the AFS volumes via standard AFS commands
while AFS is running?

I assume it's not relevant here, but just in case and for the
archives... this is of course dependant on the fileserver
> backend. If you happen to have any 'inode' fileservers running
> (if you're not running a commercial unix, you don't have any),
> this is not adequate for them.


yes, I should have mentioned that these are all namei-based
fileservers, running on redhat linux.  Using ext3 filesystems,
if I remember right.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     [email protected]
Senior Systems Programmer               or   [email protected]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA
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