[OpenAFS-devel] Read-only file system

Erik Osterman e@osterman.com
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:39:01 -0700


Spent the better part of the day yesterday configuring replication. I 
felt like I overcame the learning curve; OpenAFS was beginning to make 
sense. Last night, everything was running just fine, by that I mean, I 
had several RW volumes replicated to 2 different hosts. I could read and 
write just fine on everything. I woke up today, and now it's complaining 
"Read-only file system" every time to try to make any modifications. I 
figured something must have flipped the RW partition into a RO mode.

This is happening to all my volumes, but I'll just refer to my "home" 
volume. We have just a handful of users, so all users are just in home.

vos listvldb jwalker
home
    RWrite: 536870918     ROnly: 536870919
    number of sites -> 2
       server jwalker partition /vicepa RW Site
       server donjulio partition /vicepa RO Site

vos listvol jwalker
Total number of volumes on server jwalker partition /vicepa: 8
home                              536870918 RW    5039076 K On-line

vos examine home
home                              536870918 RW    5039076 K  On-line
    jwalker /vicepa
    RWrite  536870918 ROnly  536870919 Backup          0
    MaxQuota          0 K
    Creation    Sat Mar 10 15:37:36 2007
    Copy        Sat Mar 10 15:37:36 2007
    Backup      Never
    Last Update Sun Mar 11 04:00:33 2007
    47061 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)

    RWrite: 536870918     ROnly: 536870919
    number of sites -> 2
       server jwalker partition /vicepa RW Site
       server donjulio partition /vicepa RO Site


What would cause this unexpected behavior?

Dead in the water,

Erik Osterman