[OpenAFS-devel] Unable to salvage root.cell.

[Deon George]

I'm hoping somebody can give me some help.

Today, I got struck again by the IP ACL permission denied problem (which I
think is being worked on), so I restarted all my openafs-servers and my
openafs-client that had the problem.

When the server restarted, I had even more problems, which I finally worked
out that the readonly copy of root.cell was corrupt and needed to be salvaged.
(The readwrite copy was fine).

Unable to savalage it (I guess you cant salvage read-only replicas), I deleted
it, intending to recreate it. Somehow, that rendered the readwrite copy bad
and it now needs salvaging.

Every attempt to salvage it results in success, however, every attempt to
mount it, results in the following error message in FileLog:

Thu Jul 27 14:26:43 2006 VAttachVolume: Error reading namei vol header
/vicepa//V0536870915.vol; error=101
Thu Jul 27 14:26:43 2006 VAttachVolume: Error attaching volume
/vicepa//V0536870915.vol; volume needs salvage; error=101

(The salvage log shows the following:
07/27/2006 14:16:29 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/afs/bin/salvager /vicepa
536870915 -tmpdir /tmp/afs)
07/27/2006 14:16:29 Found 0 link count file /vicepa/AFSIDat/1/1+++U/+/+/20+++s91.
... (MANY LINES HERE)
...
07/27/2006 14:16:29 1 nVolumesInInodeFile 28
07/27/2006 14:16:29 SALVAGING VOLUME 536870915.
07/27/2006 14:16:29 root.cell (536870915) updated 07/23/2006 17:13
07/27/2006 14:16:29 totalInodes 6
07/27/2006 14:16:29 Found 2 orphaned files and directories (approx. 2 KB)
07/27/2006 14:16:29 Salvaged root.cell (536870915): 2 files, 2 blocks

Is there anyway I can salvage this volume, or is my only hope to destroy it
and start again?

I'm running OpenAFS 1.4.1 on RHEL4.

Thanks...

...deon



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