From e8438cd2297244dc0785f94827efdc528bcde588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 04:51:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Document the need to restart ptserver and vlserver on the existing database servers when adding a new one. Thanks, Niklas Edmundsson. (Closes: #349659) --- debian/README.servers | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------ debian/changelog | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/README.servers b/debian/README.servers index 4cdd12c1f..d323215af 100644 --- a/debian/README.servers +++ b/debian/README.servers @@ -329,7 +329,19 @@ Adding Additional Servers bos addhost for each db server in your cell (including the new one). - Then, create ptserver and vlserver instances on the new server: + Then, restart the ptserver and vlserver instances on each of your + existing servers with: + + bos restart ptserver + bos restart vlserver + + It's best to wait a few seconds after doing this for each server + before doing the next server so that voting finishes and you never + lose a quorum. + + Only after ptserver and vlserver have been restarted on each of your + existing servers, create ptserver and vlserver instances on the new + server: bos create ptserver simple /usr/lib/openafs/ptserver \ -localauth @@ -337,11 +349,14 @@ Adding Additional Servers -localauth The existing servers should then propagate the database to the new - server. Note that you do not need to run a file server on a db - server if you don't want to (and larger sites probably will not want - to), but you always need to have the openafs-fileserver package - installed on db servers. It contains the bosserver binary and some - of the shared infrastructure. + server. If you are using buserver, you will need to do the same + thing for it as with ptserver and vlserver. + + Note that you do not need to run a file server on a db server if you + don't want to (and larger sites probably will not want to), but you + always need to have the openafs-fileserver package installed on db + servers. It contains the bosserver binary and some of the shared + infrastructure. 5. If you added a new db server, configure your clients to use it. If you are using AFSDB records in DNS, you can just add a new record diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 3ecc80d79..b8f167235 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ openafs (1.4.0-4) unstable; urgency=low * Hopefully fix sparc64 kernel support. Thanks, Troy Benjegerdes. (Closes: #219429) + * Document the need to restart ptserver and vlserver on the existing + database servers when adding a new one. Thanks, Niklas Edmundsson. + (Closes: #349659) -- -- 2.39.5