[OpenAFS] volume corruption: directory references disappear!?!

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:44:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:

> 
>   Derrick thanks for your reply,
> 
>   Here's what I get in the FileLog on the host which was serving up those
> volumes:
> 
> 
> Sun Jun 30 04:00:22 2002 File Server started Sun Jun 30 04:00:22 2002
> Sun Jun 30 08:17:58 2002 ReallyRead(): read failed device 0 inode 80C2640
> errno 5
> Sun Jun 30 08:17:58 2002 ReallyRead(): read failed device 0 inode 80C2640
> errno 5
> [...]

> the clone. This seems strange though... if a clone is a set of pointers to
> the original data, and the original volume became corrupted, how did the
> cloned data survive?

Presumably "CopyOnWrite" corrupted the parent as it was copying. Still,
you should probably upgrade to OpenAFS 1.2.5.