[OpenAFS] Urgent: Unable to dump volumes

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:22:05 +0100


On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Hans-Gunther Borrmann wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 21:03, Horst Birthelmer wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Hans-Gunther Borrmann wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> during the migration from TRANSARC fileservers to OpenAFS namei
>>> fileservers I
>>> ran into major problems. One is now:
>>>
>>> I cannot dump volumes which reside on the OpenAFS Fileserver
>>>
>>> [root@ws4:www]# vos dump www.uniradio.var -file /tmp/dumptest
>>> Error in rx_EndCall
>>> VOLSER: Problems encountered in doing the dump !
>>> Error in vos dump command.
>>> VOLSER: Problems encountered in doing the dump !
>>>
>>> The VolserLog shows:
>>> Wed Jan 26 18:30:00 2005 1 Volser: DumpFile: no memory
>>
>> If it is what I think it is ... and I definitely have to go test it a
>> little more than that would be a bug related to one I fixed some time
>> ago.
>>
>> The filesize in the AIX stat is 64bit and if you give that value to a
>> malloc you'll get what the higher 32bits of that number are saying (we
>> have a big endian machine) and in 90% of the cases that's 0. ;-)
>>
>> Horst
>
> I just installed fileserver and volserver from 1.3.65 which was the 
> version I
> used for my tests. These binaries work!

Then it wasn't the bug I thought of. That one would have been in there 
even in that version.

Horst