On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Susan Litzinger wrote: > In order to get our current installation in sync, I attempted to create > another RO root.cell on velma in the same partition that the RW is on but I > am unable to do that and get the error that Multiple ROs on a single server > aren't allowed. Will I cause problems if I remove the current RO (that is > on the wrong partition) then create a new one in the correct partition?
Should not cause problems. > Then, if we move the RW root.cell to afs-vmc, the release should work? > Here is the results of 'vos examine root.cell' for our site: Assuming you move it to afs-vmc's vicepga, that should work. -Ben > [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos examine root.cell > vsu_ClientInit: Could not get afs tokens, running unauthenticated. > root.cell 537176384 RW 49 K On-line > velma.psc.edu /vicepca > RWrite 537176384 ROnly 0 Backup 537176401 > MaxQuota 20000 K > Creation Tue Nov 29 19:01:08 2005 > Copy Fri Jun 8 16:24:57 2012 > Backup Sat Mar 2 02:32:38 2019 > Last Access Thu Mar 7 10:43:30 2019 > Last Update Thu Apr 5 14:20:25 2018 > 239 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references) > > RWrite: 537176384 ROnly: 537176385 Backup: 537176401 > number of sites -> 5 > server velma.psc.edu partition /vicepca RW Site > server daphne.psc.edu partition /vicepdc RO Site > server velma.psc.edu partition /vicepcb RO Site > server scooby.psc.edu partition /vicepac RO Site > server afs-vmc.psc.edu partition /vicepga RO Site -- Not released > > Thanks for the help -- Susan > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:11 PM Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@auristor.com> wrote: > > > On 3/6/2019 3:56 PM, Susan Litzinger wrote: > > > We are updating our very old AFS servers and chose to create new, > > > updated systems then migrate all the volumes over and eventually just > > > turn the older ones off. > > > > > > We've moved everything but the root.cell volumes. We have one RW > > > root.cell on an older server and would like to have a RW root.cell on a > > > new server before turning the older one off. My co-worker gave this a > > > try and it allowed her to run 'vos addsite' but did not allow her to > > > 'vos release' the new RW root.cell. She got this error: > > > > > > root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos addsite afs-vmc.psc.edu > > > <http://afs-vmc.psc.edu> /vicepga > > > root.cell -localauth > > > Added replication site afs-vmc.psc.edu <http://afs-vmc.psc.edu> /vicepga > > > for volume root.cell > > > [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos release root.cell -localauth > > > Failed to clone the volume 537176384 > > > : Invalid cross-device link > > > Error in vos release command. > > > Clone volume is not in the same partition as the read-write volume. > > > > > > Susan, > > > > The problem with root.cell is on velma. The RW and RO must be on the > > same partition. > > > > Jeffrey Altman > > > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info