[OpenAFS] vos release

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:34:26 -0400 (EDT)


Todd's suggestion about checking FileLogs is possibly helpful. Anyhow...

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> So far, I seem to be having fewer problems, but they're not gone.  With
> the first volume release I did today, I got the same problem that I'd
> gotten before:
> 
> (root) windlord:~> alias rfv
> vos release -f -v
> (root) windlord:~> rfv pubsw.siteemacs

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> This is a complete release of the volume 2003896810
> Recloning RW volume ...
> Failed to end cloning transaction on RW 2003896811
> Possible communication failure
> Error in vos release command.
> Possible communication failure
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> Perhaps the -f flag at this point has something to do with it?  We
> standardized on always using it at some point in the past when Transarc
> AFS would corrupt the volume unless -f was given, and then never changed
> back.

-f should always be safe.