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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Hongliang Gai wrote:

> I tried this. It still shows empty directory.

(An alternate path and not a remount in the same location, right?)

> More hint?

What was in the salvage logs? Consider that you might need to slavage with
-orphans attach?

> > 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.