Re: [OpenAFS] replication question

2006-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
You are instructing the client to access the R/W volume which exists on A. Therefore, if A is down there is no volume for the client to access. Failover only occurs from R/O to R/O. Jeffrey Altman Walter Lamagna wrote: > Another interesting data is that when Server A is down, in Server B i >

Re: [OpenAFS] replication question

2006-11-22 Thread Walter Lamagna
Here is more information, Server A is named "Turing" and has the root.afs and root.cell RW volumes. Server B is "Retro". # vos examine root.afs root.afs 536870912 RW 4 K On-line turing /vicepa RWrite 536870912 ROnly 536870913 Backup 0 Ma

Re: [OpenAFS] replication question

2006-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Your clients don't believe you. What is the output of "vos examine root.afs" and "vos examine root.cell"? Walter Lamagna wrote: > I do have them already: > > Server A: > root.afs > root.afs.readonly > root.cell > root.cell.readonly > documents.readonly > > Server B: > root.afs.readonly > root.

Re: [OpenAFS] replication question

2006-11-22 Thread Walter Lamagna
I do have them already: Server A: root.afs root.afs.readonly root.cell root.cell.readonly documents.readonly Server B: root.afs.readonly root.cell.readonly documents Thanks, Walter On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:11 -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Walter Lamagna wrote: > > Hello, i am setting up afs

Re: [OpenAFS] replication question

2006-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Walter Lamagna wrote: > Hello, i am setting up afs replication and have a question. > > The Server A has the root.afs and root.cell RW volumes, also some RW and > RO volumes. And Server B has some RW and RO volumes. It happens that > when i shutdown server A, i can not access RW volumes in Server

[OpenAFS] replication question

2006-11-22 Thread Walter Lamagna
Hello, i am setting up afs replication and have a question. The Server A has the root.afs and root.cell RW volumes, also some RW and RO volumes. And Server B has some RW and RO volumes. It happens that when i shutdown server A, i can not access RW volumes in Server B, though thouse RW volumes i w

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs-1.4.2 RHEL RPM package installs nonempty SuidCells and mangles CellServDB

2006-11-22 Thread Berthold Cogel
Berthold Cogel schrieb: Perhaps it is possible to include a script in openafs with a mechanism that allows the user to update his CellServDB. It should be called by the init script. This mechanism could be triggered also by local update methods (cfengine) or manualy. The init script could

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs-1.4.2 RHEL RPM package installs nonempty SuidCells and mangles CellServDB

2006-11-22 Thread Rainer Laatsch
My recommendation on installing a new host: Have the own CellServDB installed before the afs rpm by some other means, If the afs rpm finds an empty or no CellServDB, it should copy CellServDB.public to CellServDB . Mangling the own CellServDB isn't that good; we had to wait for one year before ou

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs-1.4.2 RHEL RPM package installs nonempty SuidCells and mangles CellServDB

2006-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Berthold Cogel wrote: > Derrick J Brashear schrieb: >> >> If we can get a vgaue consensus on what it is that should be sourced, >> I'd love to accept and integrate such a contribution... as long as >> people who don't have something set still get their DB updated. Having >> one set of packages ever

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs-1.4.2 RHEL RPM package installs nonempty SuidCells and mangles CellServDB

2006-11-22 Thread Berthold Cogel
Derrick J Brashear schrieb: If we can get a vgaue consensus on what it is that should be sourced, I'd love to accept and integrate such a contribution... as long as people who don't have something set still get their DB updated. Having one set of packages everyone can use, and no one needing