[OpenAFS] Vos create failure - I/O error

[Jimmy Engelbrecht]

Jimmy Engelbrecht <jimmy@e.kth.se> writes:

> > #Vos create talker.apple.com /vicepa root.afs -cell cerb.apple.com -noauth
> > Failed to create the volume root.afs 536870912
> > : I/O error
> > Error in vos create command
> > : I/O error
> > 
> > 
> > Sun OS 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
> 
> The only i can say is that i had the same problem yesterday when
> tested it on Tru64 5.1, the VolserLog shows the following:
> 
> bash# cat /usr/afs/logs/VolserLog
> Wed Feb 21 16:56:45 2001 Starting AFS Volserver 2.0 (/usr/afs/bin/volserver)
> Wed Feb 21 16:56:48 2001 VCreateVolume: partition /vicepa is not in service.
> Wed Feb 21 16:56:48 2001 1 Volser: CreateVolume: Unable to create the volume; aborted, error code 103
> Wed Feb 21 16:56:48 2001 : Value too large to be stored in data type.
> 
> The tested version was: Openafs-2001-02-15
> 
> It didn't happend me on Digital UNIX 4.0d, but i dont remember if i
> tested the same version.
> 
> I will look on it as soon as possible.
> 
> bash# cat /usr/afs/logs/VolserLog

Stis happens when you run the volser without to have the kernelmodule
loaded. It will die with SIGSYS since the syscall is not installed.

/Jimmy