On currently shipping releases it is not possible to put a volume in an offline state without a reboot. There is some partial good news that it will be possible in later releases of OnTap.
Mike Federwisch Network Appliance
Great question Cliff. I have a similar situation where I am moving data from one filer to another and would very much like not to have to reboot.
Secondly this data is exported and automounted by most of our workstations. I'd like to find a way to have the workstations give up the old mounts and mount the new ones without rebooting the workstations. Automount -v on the workstations does not release the old mount points.
Any ideas?
Marilyn Caven Unix Systems Administrator Next Level Communications Phone(707) 584-6302
-----Original Message----- From: Cliff Nadler [mailto:cnadler@colltech.com] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:19 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Creating a volume offline
I've looked through the docs, and I can't find how to create a volume so that it will be offline when created.
I'm needing this to move some data from one set of disks on a filer to another using vol copy (where the target needs to be offline). And since this particular filer currently contains some database files and our common executable repository, I'm loathe to reboot it just to take a volume offline.
Any ideas?
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