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

[Hongliang Gai]

Hi Hartmut,
  Finally I got it back. I have to flush client throught the
/afs/.cell.name, not /afs/cell.name.

Thanks,

-Hongliang

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Hartmut Reuter wrote:

>
> If this is a namei fileserver you can have a look into the
> vicep-Partition. If you give me the number of the
> RW-volume I can tell you the path where the files belonging to this
> volume can be found.
>
> Then you can do there a "du" to find out how much of the data still exist.
>
> If you have luck it's only the root directory of the volume which is gone.
>
> You also should run volinfo or MR-AFS's traverser to find out which
> files and directories
> are expected from meta-data view of your volume.
>
> Hartmut
>
>
> Hongliang Gai wrote:
> > Hi Hartmut,
> >   The dump + restore is done. I made a mount point in my home directory
> > for this new volume. But it is still has nothing in that, even I restart
> > both client and server machine. All the other partions in the server are
> > fine, never have this problem. I examine the volume, it appears ok.
> > any further hint?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Hongliang
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Hartmut Reuter wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What says the SalvageLog?
> >>
> >>Try to dump and restore the volume
> >>vos dump <volume> 0 | vos restore <server> <partition> <new volume>
> >>
> >>If it's not an AFS bug it easily could also be a bad disk!
> >>
> >>Hartmut
> >>
> >>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?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in advance,
> >>>
> >>>-Hongliang
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