Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-02 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Derek Harkness [2004-11-01 11:53:40 -0500]: > I'm a little confused. Why does my home volume keep switching to > read-only, whenever I create a read-only replica of my root.cell? My confusion mirrors yours. Unless your home volume is also replicated, it shouldn't matter whether the root.cell

Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/1/04, Derek Harkness wrote: Correct I'm replicating my home volumes. If you're going to replicate home volumes, then you have to point the entry in /etc/passwd (or equivalent) to the rw volume. This doesn't seem worth the trouble to me. But if that isn't possible or not recomme

Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-01 Thread Todd M. Lewis
Derek Harkness wrote: Correct I'm replicating my home volumes. My solution to not having read-write replication is just releasing the volumes every couple of minutes or whenever they need to be released. [Sigh] This is not recommended. But if that isn't possible or not recommended then AFS is re

Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Derek Harkness wrote: Correct I'm replicating my home volumes. My solution to not having read-write replication is just releasing the volumes every couple of minutes or whenever they need to be released. But if that isn't possible or not recommended then AFS is really quite

Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-01 Thread Derek Harkness
Correct I'm replicating my home volumes. My solution to not having read-write replication is just releasing the volumes every couple of minutes or whenever they need to be released. But if that isn't possible or not recommended then AFS is really quite useless for user home directories. The

Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Derek Harkness wrote: I'm a little confused. Why does my home volume keep switching to read-only, whenever I create a read-only replica of my root.cell? Don't I need a because you replicated your home directory. in general that's not done, because read-write replication does

[OpenAFS] Read-only issues

2004-11-01 Thread Derek Harkness
I'm a little confused. Why does my home volume keep switching to read-only, whenever I create a read-only replica of my root.cell? Don't I need a replica of my root.cell? What happens if I don't have a replica and my the server hosting the root.cell goes down? Do I loose access to my entire