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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Deon George wrote:

> (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.

There are clearly more than 2 orphans here, but, it would probably be 
easier to delete and recreate the volume. The real issue is how it got 
corrupted in the first place.

Derrick