Re: new RW root.cell

Typically EXDEV (a cross-device link) error is because you've got more than
one copy of the volume, on different partitions on the same server.

vos examine root.cell; if you see afs-vmc.psc.edu already has a site on a
different partition other than vicepga, well, that'd be the issue.

How many sites do you have?

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM Susan Litzinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are updating our very old AFS servers and chose to create new, updated
> systems then migrate all the volumes over and eventually just turn the
> older ones off.
>
> We've moved everything but the root.cell volumes.  We have one RW
> root.cell on an older server and would like to have a RW root.cell on a new
> server before turning the older one off.  My co-worker gave this a try and
> it allowed her to run 'vos addsite' but did not allow her to 'vos release'
> the new RW root.cell.  She got this error:
>
> root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos addsite afs-vmc.psc.edu /vicepga
> root.cell -localauth
> Added replication site afs-vmc.psc.edu /vicepga for volume root.cell
> [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos release root.cell -localauth
> Failed to clone the volume 537176384
> : Invalid cross-device link
> Error in vos release command.
> Clone volume is not in the same partition as the read-write volume.
> 
> Has anyone else tried this type of upgrade?  Are there any docs specific
> to this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Susan Litzinger
> PSC
>


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