From: Ken Dreyer Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:27:16 +0000 (-0600) Subject: doc: limitations of addsite on different partitions X-Git-Tag: upstream/1.8.0_pre1^2~3087 X-Git-Url: https://git.michaelhowe.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c59c07132ef17589ad3466ded418c1370539b7af;p=packages%2Fo%2Fopenafs.git doc: limitations of addsite on different partitions A user on the openafs-info mailing list noted that the Admin Guide is unclear about creating read-only replicas on different partitions on the same fileserver. Clarify the rules here. Change-Id: I8229b4fba36c128772bb8198e6b8310a51206c03 Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/5745 Tested-by: BuildBot Reviewed-by: Andrew Deason Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear --- diff --git a/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml b/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml index e21ea53f6..57c90c1c8 100644 --- a/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml +++ b/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml @@ -2084,9 +2084,14 @@ index, rather than a full copy of the volume contents. Only if the read/write volume moves to another partition or changes substantially does the read-only volume consume significant disk - space. Read-only volumes kept on other partitions always consume the - full amount of disk space that the read/write source consumed when - the read-only volume was created. + space. Read-only volumes kept on other servers' partitions always + consume the full amount of disk space that the read/write source + consumed when the read-only volume was created. + + You cannot have a replica volume on a different partition of + the same server hosting the read/write volume. "Cheap" read-only + volumes must be on the same partition as the read/write; all other + read-only volumes must be on different servers.