On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:41:25 +0200 Lars Schimmer <l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at> 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 adea...@sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info