[OpenAFS] AIX v3fshelper

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Matthew A. Bacchi wrote:

> I have seen the statement on the IBM developerworks
> site(http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/afs/downloads.html)
> saying that "no fsck available on AIX or Solaris platforms".  In the

For Solaris if you don't use logging ufs, the BSD vfsck works fine, just
as a point of info.

> past I have witnessed the havoc that regular AIX fsck can wreak on an
> AFS partition.  Should I be running a namei fileserver to avoid
> problems?  Otherwise, how can I guarantee that fsck won't destroy my
> partitions?

probably. there's more or less not a chance we can have vfsckaix, sadly.

> What are other people doing?  Is this even an issue?  Is there any
> work being done on a v3fshelper in OpenAFS?

you're probably the first person to really care about an aix fileserver.