[OpenAFS] empty /afs

[Dan Hyde]

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On Jul 11, 2012, at 9:25 PM, "Lewis, Dave" <LEWIS@NKI.RFMH.ORG> wrote:

> Hi,
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> On one of our fileservers, /afs is empty.  (We're running the AFS client
> on the fileserver because I sometimes do client operations there.)  All
> of our other servers and clients seem fine.
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> I looked through the AFS log files and didn't see anything obvious (but
> I could have missed something).  The /usr/vice/cache partition is ext3.
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> CentOS 5.6, OpenAFS 1.4.14.1, 64-bit
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> $ ls -la /afs
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 14  2010 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 May 26 19:16 ../
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> # service openafs-client status
> afsd (pid 4320) is running...
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> # du -sh /usr/vice/cache
> 24M     /usr/vice/cache
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> # cat /usr/vice/etc/cacheinfo
> /afs:/usr/vice/cache:900000
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> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/openafs
> # OpenAFS Client Configuration
> AFSD_ARGS=3D"-fakestat -stat 4000 -dcache 4000 -daemons 6 -volumes 256
> -files 50000 -nosettime"
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> # OpenAFS Server Configuration
> BOSSERVER_ARGS=3D
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> On another server (set up the same way):
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> $ ls -la /afs
> total 15
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 2048 May 17  2000 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 May 26 19:20 ../
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 bin  root   13 May 17  2000 cabi -> cabi.rfmh.org/
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 2048 Jun 14  2011 .cabi.rfmh.org/
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 2048 Jun 14  2011 cabi.rfmh.org/
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> # du -sh /usr/vice/cache
> 827M    /usr/vice/cache
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> Would it be safe to restart the AFS client and see if it fixes the
> problem?  Since the computer is a server and I haven't figured out the
> cause of the problem, I thought I would ask here first.
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> Thanks,
> Dave
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