as long as you preserve owner, group and mode you're fine. -o (owner) -g (group) -p (perms) needed, but -a (archive) implies all those. so the usual -auv that people use is fine.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Garance A Drosihn <dro...@rpi.edu> wrote: > Consider a fileserver with the following partitions on it: > > /vicepa (in production use) > /vicepb (in production use) > /nextpa (totally empty) > > Assume that all the AFS processes will be shutdown on this > fileserver for a few hours (for unrelated reasons). > > 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? > > It also happens that every volume on /vicepa is replicated > on multiple AFS fileservers. (some are RO's for volumes > where the RW is on this /vicepa, and some are RO's for > volumes where the RW is on other fileservers). > > This is not an urgent issue. I'm just wondering. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = dro...@rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info