[OpenAFS] can not attach to a read only volume

[Derek Atkins]

you might try:
        vos zap <server> <partition> <volume>
        vos release <volume>

You should be sure that you vos zap the .readonly and not the
readwrite..

-derek

"T. Matthew Cocker" <matt@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> Hi
> 
> We had a server (rh7.1 linux openafs1.0.4) crash the other day (not
> caused by AFS), but on reboot there were disk problems. After finally
> getting through fsck etc and getting the server running the root.cell
> RO volume on this server (a secondary FS), vos release commands
> failed. I tried to remove the RO volume to start again, but vos
> release failed (output below)
> 
> # vos remove -server afs-01 -partition /vicepa -id 536870916
> -localauth -verbose
> 
> root.cell
>      RWrite: 536870915
>      number of sites -> 1
>         server afs-02.cell.name partition /vicepa RW Site  -- New release
> Transaction on volume 536870916 failed
> Volume needs to be salvaged
> Error in vos remove command.
> Volume needs to be salvaged
> 
> So I tried to salvage the volume (see below)
> 
> [root@afs-01 /root]# bos salvage -server afs-01 -partition /vicepa
> -volume 536870916 -localauth -showlog
> Starting salvage.
> bos: salvage completed
> SalvageLog:
> @(#) OpenAFS stable 1.0.4 built  2001-05-18
> 01/14/2002 10:07:43 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/afs/bin/salvager
> /vicepa 536870916)
> 01/14/2002 10:07:43 No applicable vice inodes on vicepa; not salvaged
> Temporary file /vicepa/salvage.inodes.vicepa.16911 is missing...
> 
> Now I will admit to being a little lost. Can anyone help me get rid of
> this RO volume so that I can re-release the root.cell (would it work
> without cleaning this volume up first)?  I was able to remove the
> volume from the vldb on all servers but it still "shows" up in the vos
> listvol command (**** Could not attach volume 536870916 ****).
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matthew Cocker
> PC Systems Administrator
> Computer Science Department
> The University of Auckland
> 
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