[OpenAFS] vfsck for hp_ux11i

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:38:16 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, James E. Dobson wrote:

> > I have searched through the archived post's to find any
> > information with vfsck and HP-UX.  My question is simply, does
> > OpenAFS require vfsck as AFS did?
> >
> > In the AFS manual it states, "Never run the standard fsck
> > program on AFS server partitions.  It discards AFS volumes."  Has
> > this changed with OpenAFS, or do I need to use AFS vfsck.
>
>
> Depends. If you compile support for namei you don't need to use vfsck.
> The namei-enabled fileserver creates normal links into the file systems
> and will let you run fs features such as logging on it. If you use
> standard inode fileserver you will need to 'fsuck' with the OpenAFS
> version of fsck (vfsck).

Which doesn't exist for HP-UX. Is the filesystem type a BSD ffs variant?
If so, you can try building the OpenAFS vfsck. Otherwise, it's not going
to work.