Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Read-only replication

2010-06-18 Thread George Ross
If you're only using volumes for home directories, or things like group collaboration space, then RO volumes are not very useful to you. Actually, that's definitely not true in my experience. See below. As you mentioned, they can also 'kinda' be used for backup purposes, [ snip ] I

[OpenAFS] Re: Read-only replication

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:06:34 +0200 Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl wrote: In an organization where it is only necessary for an administrator to either give users read-write access to volumes, or no access at all, what would be the advantage of creating any read-only replicas, beyond those

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Read-only replication

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 17 Jun 2010, at 16:29, Andrew Deason wrote: If you're only using volumes for home directories, or things like group collaboration space, then RO volumes are not very useful to you. Actually, that's definitely not true in my experience. See below. As you mentioned, they can also 'kinda' be

[OpenAFS] Re: Read-only replication

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:35:13 +0100 Simon Wilkinson s...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote: As you mentioned, they can also 'kinda' be used for backup purposes, [ snip ] I definitely wouldn't recommend that for home dirs or anything like that, though, since from the user's perspective it looks like their