Re: new RW root.cell

On 3/6/2019 3:56 PM, Susan Litzinger 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
> <http://afs-vmc.psc.edu> /vicepga 
> root.cell -localauth
> Added replication site afs-vmc.psc.edu <http://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.


Susan,

The problem with root.cell is on velma.  The RW and RO must be on the
same partition.

Jeffrey Altman

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