[OpenAFS] vldb hosed, lists no volumes

[Warren.Yenson@MorganStanley.com]

I thought it was `vos syncvldb' that read the disk and updated the vldb if
it found volumes that were in /vicep* and not in the VLDB.

(Stupid names, I always have to look them up).

              - Warren

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:

>
>    Nope. A vos syncserv claims to syncronize, but listvldb doesn't show
> any of my original volumes. vos listvol continues to show volume names,
> disk consumption, etc. Note that I'm doing a vos syncserv hostname
> partition. A vos syncvldb hostname partition volumename claims the volume
> is syncronized but then a vos listvldb doesn't show the entry. A vos
> examine volumename then claims there is "no such entry".
>
> Thanks though,
> --Maynard
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >    when performing a vos listvldb. This happened while bringing up a new
> > > fileserver/vlserver/ptserver and entering a mistaken vos syncvldb. Whoops,
> >
> > any reason you can just use vos syncserv to recover now?
> >
> > > now the original server has an empty vldb cloned from the new volume
> > > server. Fortunately, we're not in production yet. However, a vos listvols
> > > lists all the volumes which were previously in the vldb, and the vice
> > > partition which houses the data still appears to contain something. I've
> > > been poking around the documentation trying to figure out how to restore
> > > the volumes short of restoring from tape. I've tries a bos salvage, but no
> > > luck. Is there any way I can specify a volume listed in listvols and
> > > assign it to a specific partition and host to create a new vldb entry
> > > without destroying the original data?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --Maynard
> > >
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