Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Levente Peres
Wow! More and more things to think about... Thank you Jason! I let you guys know how it goes... Levente On 12/30/2014 06:29 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > You can do a bind mount where you mount the old folder as read-only (I > think) in a new location, then only serve out files via AFS and the >

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Levente Peres
On 12/30/2014 05:57 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2014, 17:33:44 schrieb Levente Peres: > >>> Why same server? An AFS setup usually consists of several servers, >>> especially if you want to serve terabytes of data. Not to mention the >>>

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Levente Peres
On 12/30/2014 05:08 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2014, 16:45:27 schrieb Levente Peres: >> Hello Jeff, >> >> Thank you for answering. >> >> I might have been a little obscure... I'll try to clear this up for you. >> >> So...

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Levente Peres
Hello Jeff, Thank you for answering. I might have been a little obscure... I'll try to clear this up for you. So... Right NOW I have a partition called /vicepa, which exists right now, and has an XFS volume, which is used actively. It has some terabytes of data and about 2.5 times of free space

[OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Levente Peres
Dear Users, Thank you for maintaining this list. I have been using AFS in the past, but never tried this sort of thing before. I have terabytes of data that I would like to "convert" into AFS. It right now exists on a large XFS filesystem. Shutting down the server, or rather, denying access to