[OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

[Stephen Joyce]

The last time this happened to me (solaris 8 running transarc 3.6 2.26), I
found that salvaging the problem volume alone wasn't enough.... I even
tried specifiying "-tmpdir /tmp -orphans remove" without success.

What finally worked for me was salvaging the entire partition housing the
problem volume.  Unfortunately, that will temporarily stop the fs process
on that fileserver, so plan ahead by moving the other volumes or scheduling
a few minutes' downtime.

PS.  I never did track down the cause of the problem, but whatever it is
affects the transarc version above too.

Cheers,
Stephen
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On 25 Feb 2003, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:

> Assuming that to be the case, how do I recover?  Is it as simple as
> adding "-force" to the salvage command, or am I misreading what the
> effect of the "-force" option is meant to be?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -norm
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:05, Todd_DeSantis@transarc.com wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > You might find that salvaging ANY readonly volume will return the same
> > message about
> >
> > 	No applicable inodes
> > 	Temp file missing
> >
> > I believe that the salvager automatically skips doing anything with
> > readonly volumes.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Todd
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