[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Backup Trouble (volume loss) on SuSE Linux 7.3 / Kernel 2.4.18

[Andrei Maslennikov]

On 22 Apr 2002, Balazs GAL wrote:

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> 2002-04-22, h keltez=E9ssel Carsten Tolkmit ezt =EDrta:
> > Hi,
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> > we are still experience volume loss on our OpenAFS 1.2.3 servers
> during=20
> > backup. It seems that the vos backup destroys the structure of the=20
> > volumes so we end up with thousands of orphans (after bos salvage) in=
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> > the volumes.
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> Yes, Yes. I have this problem too.
> openafs 1.2.3
> kernel 2.4.18
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Is anyone else seeing it? I have tried to do my best to reproduce
this problem on Red Hat 7.2 (openafs 1.2.3, kernel 2.4.17), and
have not seen a smallest problem. I have created two identical test
volumes of 1 GB each, with 50000 files and tried "vos backup" and then
"bos salvage" on one of the two volumes. No orphans, not a single bit
lost, the two volumes remained identical after this operation.

Could the problem be linked to the kernel version?=20
Carsten, Balazs: could you come back one step to 2.4.17 and retry?

Andrei
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