Adding a new cvmfs repository

This article is under development.

This article gives a quick overview of the steps needed to create a new cvmfs repository and activate it on the clients. The repository name used in the examples is my.repo.fqdn; replace it with the appropriate name (i.e., a fully-qualified domain name corresponding to a domain name is owned by the party being served). At Nikhef, the Stratum-0 and Stratum-1 servers are mesthoop and cvmfs01 (an alias), respectively,

Stratum-0:

• Create new repo:

cvmfs_server mkfs -w http://<STRATUM-0>/cvmfs/my.repo.fqdn -o cvmfs my.repo.fqdn

• Populate repo:

cvmfs_server transaction my.repo.fqdn
rsync -av <SRCDIR> /cvmfs/my.repo.fqdn/
cvmfs_server publish my.repo.fqdn

(or to abort:)

cvmfs_server abort my.repo.fqdn

• Enable replication to Stratum-1 servers:

cvmfs_server alterfs -m on my.repo.fqdn

Stratum-1:

• Add the pub key of the new repo to /etc/cvmfs/keys/my.repo.fqdn.pub

• Add the repo:

 cvmfs_server add-replica http://<STRATUM-0>/cvmfs/my.repo.fqdn /etc/cvmfs/keys/my.repo.fqdn.pub

• To synchronize:

/usr/local/sbin/cvmfs-stratum1-synchronize.sh

or

 cvmfs_server snapshot my.repo.fqdn

Clients:

• Add the public key of the new repository to /etc/cvmfs/keys/my.repo.fqdn.pub

• Configuration for the new repository:

# cat /etc/cvmfs/config.d/my.repo.fqdn.conf 
CVMFS_PUBLIC_KEY=/etc/cvmfs/keys/my.repo.fqdn.pub
CVMFS_SERVER_URL=http://<STRATUM-1>/cvmfs/@fqrn@/