On Wednesday, 08/28/2002 at 10:10 ZE2, Hartmut Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...... > Whenever the original partition should break I will do a > "vos convert <otherserver> <partition> <volume>" > which converts the RO into a RW-volume. > > This "vos convert" command, however, is an extension I wrote for MR-AFS, > but suppose it could easily be implemented for OpenAFS with > NAMEI-interface as well. practically it only does things: > > 1) it checks the vldb and prompts for a yes if the RW-volume exists at > another place. > 2) it checks only one volume is in the volume group on this partition. > 3) it renames the large and small vnode-files in the special directory > and creates a new volinfo special file with the correct volume id and name. > 4.) it removes the old volinfo file and volume header file and create a > new volume header-file. > 5.) it updates the vldb-entry to point to this RW. > > This command is pretty fast. You could regain the volumes of a 200 GB > partition in half an hour. Much faster than to restore the contents from > tapes.
Yup, this is a good idea. I did an analogous thing for DFS as one of my last hack attacks with it. I called it "fts rwconvert" or some such and it basically did the same thing: promote a single R/O site as the new R/W. With DFS using Episode, I could add another check and verify that the R/O being promoted has the largest fileset version of all the extant R/O sites. Craig Craig Everhart +1 919 543 2169 (tie 441 2169) _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info