In this section we will add read-only volume support to our OpenAFS cell.

At this point we should have the top-level directory structure:

/afs/                   -> root.afs
  yoyodyne.com/         -> root.cell
    project/
      mayhem            -> project.mayhem
    user/
      alice             -> user.alice
      bob               -> user.bob

== About volume groups ==

TODO: discussion about volume groups?

== Creating top level read-only volumes ==

Obtain admin credentials.

kinit admin
aklog

The vos addsite tool is used to declare read-only sites in the VLDB. The first read-only site should match the location of the read-only volume, i.e., the same fileserver and same partition on the fileserver. Additional read-only sites should be declared on other fileservers. Then, use vos release to distribute the files.

First, we create read-only volumes for the top level volumes.

vos addsite afs01 a root.afs
vos addsite afs02 a root.afs

vos release root.afs

vos addsite afs01 a root.cell
vos addsite afs02 a root.cell

vos release root.cell

Refresh your client's cache to be sure the paths are re-evaluated.

fs checkvolumes
fs flushall

Now, the cache manager should resolve paths to the top level cell directory to be served out of the read-only root.cell volume.

fs examine /afs/yoyodyne.com/

== Creating a read-only volume ==

Let's create read-only volumes for a volume in our cell.

vos addsite afs01 a project.mayhem
vos addsite afs02 a project.mayhem
vos release project.mayhem

fs examine /afs/yoyodyne.com/project/mayhem/

This path should now be served by the read-only copy of the volume. The files reside on both fileservers, and clients may use either one. If one file server is down, clients should automatically fail over to the other server.

== Accessing read-write data ==

In order to access the read-write volume we must use a path that has a read-write mount point.

fs example /afs/.yoyodyne.com/project/mayhem/

Sine Nomine Associates Nov 2017