[OpenAFS] Limiting salvager to a single partition

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:58:27 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Shawn Freebern wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know of a way to make the salvager work only on certain
> partitions?  
> 
> Basically, we'll be in a situation where we know two partitions are clean,
> and two others have been imported from a failed server and need salvaging.  
> We need to stop the fileserver while salvager runs, that's a service
> outage.  Salvager will slowly go through each of four 250gig partitions,
> that makes the outage twice as long as it needs to be.  We'd like to
> tell/trick the salvager into only hitting the two partitions that have
> been imported - cutting downtime in half.  Any ideas?
> 
> The best option we have now is to unmount the two partitions that we don't
> want to salvage.  Ugly all around.

bos salvage hostname partition
on both partitions?

-D