[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Volume root corruptions - anybody seen those?

Rainer Toebbicke rtb@pclella.cern.ch
Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:16:09 +0200


Dean Anderson schrieb:

> The premise that volserver somehow works on volumes that are offline is
> probably where you went wrong, I think. My guess is that you don't
> understand the afs system administration and you aren't properly
> admin'ing the system so that the volumes are offline when you are 
> running salvager.
> 

Yes, not unlikely...

Still - I might have misformulated initially: we do NOT shut down our 
fileserver to salvage individual volumes. The volumes are not even 
offline when being salvaged, hence the salvager and the volserver have 
both a chance to grab them.

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