[OpenAFS] blank view of an slavaged volume(offline->online) through its mount point

[Hongliang Gai]

I tried this. It still shows empty directory.
More hint?

Thanks,

-Hongliang

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Hongliang Gai wrote:
>
> > Hi All:
> >   I had experienced a problem with afs 1.2.2a on Redhat 7.0. One of my
> > user suddenly could not access its afs home directory.After I examined the
> > afs server, I found his volume appeared offline, though its backup volume
> > is online. I followed openafs doc to salvage the offline volume, then it's
> > back online. However, after the user cd to his home director, the
> > directory is empty. I tried remount the volume to the directory. It does
> > say that dir is the mount point to the volume. The size of the volume
> > shows as before, 3G. Looks like the volume is ok. But cannot let user see
> > it. How to fix it?
>
> Probably the Linux dentry cache has the empty directory cached. Create a
> mountpoint elsewhere for the volume. Can you see it from said client? If
> so, that's the problem. Restarting the AFS client will fix it but I don't
> have a simpler way to suggest offhand.
>