[OpenAFS] vldb hosed, lists no volumes

[J. Maynard Gelinas]

  Aha, I am a dumbass. I was specifying individual volumes: vos syncvldb
hostname partition volumename.  However, a vos syncvldb hostname partition
(specifying the entire partition instead of individual volumes) restored a
sane vldb and brought the data back to life. This is a valuable lesson,
that being we are never smart enough to avoid stupid blunders.

Thanks for all your help folks!

--Maynard

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 Warren.Yenson@MorganStanley.com wrote:

> 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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