[OpenAFS] Lost files

[Pär Aronsson]

Hello everyone.

I have some really bad trouble with OpenAFS. A number of times I have 
lost all files in my home directory.

What happens is that all of the files are suddenly missing when I log 
in. When I do a "fs lq ." in my home directory it reports what seams to 
be a correct amount of data, but "ls -las" show me nothing. I have done 
salvage without result. I have tried accessing the volume using my own 
kerberos ticket, admin ticket and no ticket.

I have tried mounting the .backup volume and the rw volume in different 
places and I've tried with the volume in the dump. So it seams something 
happens before the dump is made. Please note we use "vos dump" to a file 
rather than "backup dump" to tape.

I have experimented with different versions of AFS (both OpenAFS and 
Transarc AFS) on the client, the server has been upgraded when new 
OpenAFS releases has been made available. This problem has happend every 
two months or so since OpenAFS 1.0 was released. Since then the OS has 
been upgraded as well.

I'm the only one in the office with this problem, so it seams either I'm 
doing something bad or my harware does.


Has enyone else experienced this and is there a solution?


TIA
Pär Aronsson



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Here is a list of current software.

Client.
Client is RedHat 7.1 (all upgrades) and a vanilla 2.4.6 kernel, vanilla 
OpenAFS built in the running the kernel.

bash-2.04$ uname -mrs
Linux 2.4.6 i686
bash-2.04$ rxdebug localhost 7001 -v
Trying 127.0.0.1 (port 7001):
AFS version:  OpenAFS 1.1.1 built  2001-07-22


Server.
Server is RedHat 7.1 (all upgrades) and a vanilla 2.4.7 kernel, vanilla 
OpenAFS built in the running kernel.

bash-2.04$ uname -mrs
Linux 2.4.7 i686
bash-2.04$ rxdebug localhost 7001 -v
Trying 127.0.0.1 (port 7001):
AFS version:  OpenAFS 1.1.1 built  2001-07-26
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