[OpenAFS-devel] 1.3.71 on AIX 5.2 with VAC 6.0

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Oct 15, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Harald Barth wrote:

>
>> The receiving process in that case is vos, isn't it??
>
> The operation is
> vos dump -file - | hackedadsmpipe
>
> so the data is coming over rx and leaving through a pipe (that's what
> vos knows about). If there are problems with TSM the adsmpipe stuff
> can suddenly die and if there are network problems the rx can suddenly
> stall. That's all.
>

Yes

>> I think your data fetching does something wrong and you end up in the
>> ERROR_EXIT part.
>> Then your UV_VolumeDump gets stuck and you end up in the "fromtid" 
>> part
>> of the error handling code.
>> Now your AFSVolEndTrans gets an error  (maybe for the same reason) and
>> you end up with a core.
>
> Yes, that sounds like a scenario. I don't know what has to happen to
> end up in that code path.

You just have to get an error from below ... :-)
(And that's my problem, I can't figure out right now why you end up 
there when your volume gets over 4GB)


Horst