Re: new RW root.cell

In order to get our current installation in sync, I attempted to create
another RO root.cell on velma in the same partition that the RW is on but I
am unable to do that and get the error that Multiple ROs on a single server
aren't allowed.  Will I cause problems if I remove the current RO (that is
on the wrong partition) then create a new one in the correct partition?

Then, if we move the RW root.cell to afs-vmc, the release should work?
Here is the results of 'vos examine root.cell' for our site:

[root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos examine root.cell
vsu_ClientInit: Could not get afs tokens, running unauthenticated.
root.cell                         537176384 RW         49 K  On-line
    velma.psc.edu /vicepca
    RWrite  537176384 ROnly          0 Backup  537176401
    MaxQuota      20000 K
    Creation    Tue Nov 29 19:01:08 2005
    Copy        Fri Jun  8 16:24:57 2012
    Backup      Sat Mar  2 02:32:38 2019
    Last Access Thu Mar  7 10:43:30 2019
    Last Update Thu Apr  5 14:20:25 2018
    239 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)

    RWrite: 537176384     ROnly: 537176385     Backup: 537176401
    number of sites -> 5
       server velma.psc.edu partition /vicepca RW Site
       server daphne.psc.edu partition /vicepdc RO Site
       server velma.psc.edu partition /vicepcb RO Site
       server scooby.psc.edu partition /vicepac RO Site
       server afs-vmc.psc.edu partition /vicepga RO Site  -- Not released

Thanks for the help -- Susan


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:11 PM Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>