[OpenAFS] Help!!! Files / Volumes are disappearing

[Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs]

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Hi!

Rubino Gei=DF schrieb:
> we've got a serious problem here. Whole directories are disappearing.
> Even a restore from a tape backup is not working properly -- the
> internal afs storage structure seems to be corrupted, such that a
> restore is reproducing the same kind of error!
*snip*
> Thu Jun 13 09:46:05 2002 CopyOnWrite failed: volume 536871014 in
> partition /vicepa  (tried reading 8192, read 0, wrote 0, errno 4) volume
> needs salvage
> Thu Jun 13 10:40:36 2002 VAttachVolume: volume salvage flag is ON for
> /vicepa//V0536871014.vol; volume needs salvage

Have you got backup volumes for the volumes in question?

This is the old and evil CopyOnWrite failure bug, i assume. I
experienced this as well. Currently there is no fix (afaik) but a
reiliable workaround seems to be to remove the backup volume for each
affected volume and instead of dumping the backup volumes, dump the
volumes directly.

At least this has helped on my site.

I'm not an (Open)AFS developer but guessing from what i read on the
lists, this bug seems to be hard to track down.

The bug with the non-disappearing .__afs* files seems to be another
one of its kind, although less disastrous.

Kind regards
     Friedel
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	Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
Laziness led to the invention of the most useful tools.

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