[OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

[Norman P. B. Joseph]

Salvaging the entire partition had no effect.

-norm



On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:24, Stephen Joyce wrote:
> 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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