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

[Derrick J Brashear]

(Please don't reply to me and the list)

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Andrei Maslennikov wrote:

> 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.

I assume this to be the infamous "CopyOnWrite" bug, but they'll have to
look in their FileLogs to confirm it.