[OpenAFS] add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Assarsson, Emil
Hi, I'm trying to find out if it's possible to add partitions without restarting afs fileserver. Is it? And how can I do it? Or is a simple restart not considered to be downtime? Best regards Emil Assarsson Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB The information in this email, and

Re: [OpenAFS] add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Harald Barth
I'm trying to find out if it's possible to add partitions without restarting afs fileserver. Is it? And how can I do it? Or is a simple restart not considered to be downtime? My guess is that you are using 1.4.x and that the answer is no. The only way to do this wholly transparent for the

RE: [OpenAFS] add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Assarsson, Emil
Thank you for your fast response :-) I use lvm2 for the file systems and I were able to resize it without restarting the service. -- Emil -Original Message- From: Harald Barth [mailto:h...@kth.se] Sent: måndag den 8 november 2010 14:14 To: Assarsson, Emil Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Harald Barth
I use lvm2 for the file systems and I were able to resize it without restarting the service. Yes, that is of course another possibility because as far as I know the size of the vicepx file system is not stored anywhere in AFS, you make the underlying file system bigger, you have more space on

[OpenAFS] Re: add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:42:51 +0100 (CET) Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: Yes, that is of course another possibility because as far as I know the size of the vicepx file system is not stored anywhere in AFS, you make the underlying file system bigger, you have more space on your vicepx. The

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Assarsson, Emil
Thank you for the pointers :-D -- Emil -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Deason Sent: måndag den 8 november 2010 16:12 To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: add partitions witout restarting

Re: [OpenAFS] add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Anders Magnusson
There is another way; have a number of unused /vicepx available and have an AlwaysAttach in them. When you want to add more disk you just mount it on one of the unused /vicepx :-) -- Ragge Assarsson, Emil wrote: Thank you for your fast response :-) I use lvm2 for the file systems and I were

[OpenAFS] Re: add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:59:35 +0100 Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: There is another way; have a number of unused /vicepx available and have an AlwaysAttach in them. When you want to add more disk you just mount it on one of the unused /vicepx :-) I'd be careful with that, to say the