[OpenAFS] Speeding up Salvage

[Derrick Brashear]

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salvager -parallel all8

no space between all and the numeral; replace the numeral with the actual
number of partitions to salvage in parallel.

you will be much happier.


On Dec 18, 2007 4:00 PM, Jerry Normandin <Jerry.Normandin@dafca.com> wrote:

>  I have 4 1TB volumes spread across 4 volume servers.    Is there any way
> to speed up salvage?  My afs.home RW volume server takes over 3hrs to
> salvage.
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> I'm monitoring /usr/afs/logs/SalvageLog.0 to get an idea on progress.. is
> there a more accurate way?
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> Also do you have your bos server automatically running restart on a weekly
> basis?  I'm looking to minimize downtime.  Would splitting up my /vicepa to
> smaller
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> Partitions speed up the salvage process?
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on a clean shutdown i hope you aren't salvaging.

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salvager -parallel all8<br><br>no space between all and the numeral; replace the numeral with the actual number of partitions to salvage in parallel. <br><br>you will be much happier.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 18, 2007 4:00 PM, Jerry Normandin &lt;
<a href="mailto:Jerry.Normandin@dafca.com">Jerry.Normandin@dafca.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">








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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I have 4 1TB volumes spread across 4
volume servers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is there any way to speed up salvage?&nbsp; My afs.home RW volume
server takes over 3hrs to salvage.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I'm monitoring /usr/afs/logs/SalvageLog.0
to get an idea on progress.. is there a more accurate way?</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Also do you have your bos server
automatically running restart on a weekly basis?&nbsp; I'm looking to minimize
downtime.&nbsp; Would splitting up my /vicepa to smaller</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Partitions speed up the salvage process?</span></font></p>

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</blockquote></div>on a clean shutdown i hope you aren&#39;t salvaging.<br><br>

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