[OpenAFS] Re: vos syncvldb error

[Andrew Deason]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:44:09 -0600
Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:27:40 -0500
> Wenping Yang <yangw3@umdnj.edu> wrote:
> 
> > with -verbose flag, it didn't give any more info for 536870944
> > except this:
> > 
> > [root@psrwjmsafs1 logs]# vos syncvldb psrwjmsafs1 -verbose |grep
> > 536870944 VLDB: volume entry exists in the vldb
> > Could not create a VLDB entry for the volume 536870944
> 
> The interesting part of the -verbose output is about the previous ten
> lines before these. Don't just grep; save the output to a file, and
> see what output is around these lines. Or post the full output
> somewhere else and link it here (or send it to me in private email,
> if you want).

(sent to me off-list; thanks)

So, 536870945 on that server is marked as an RO volume with 536870944 as
its RW parent, even though 536870944 doesn't exist. But a volume with
the same name as that RW does already exist (536870947), which is why
you get the 'VLDB entry exists' error. (syncvldb tries to create a new
entry for 536870944 with 536870945 as an rosite)

I'd be a little curious to see what 'vos listvl 536870945' outputs.
However, the solution is probably just to 'vos remove psrwjmsafs1 e
536870945'. If you do indeed want a readonly volume for that data, just
create a new rosite for 536870947 and release it.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net