[OpenAFS] Solaris 9 issues - making some progress

[Douglas E. Engert]

Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2004, at 11:14 AM, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> 
>> Do you have a diff of the old and new header files?
>> I have patch 112233-12 on my Solaris 9 workstation, but the AFS servers
>> are running with 112233-11 The files are identical.
> 
> 
> You know, this got me thinking, and did some digging around.
> 
> I just went through all of the Solaris 9 UFS and kernel patches, and 
> discovered two patches, 113457 and 113073, which are the only patches 
> which change /usr/include/sys/fs/ufs_fs.h.
> 
> 113457 seems to have been withdrawn and superseded by 113073, which is a 
> member of the Solaris 9 recommended patch cluster. This 113073 patch is 
> a comprehensive UFS and LVM patch.
> 
> See, here our Solaris 9 boxes have S9 4/04 installed on them. The 
> Solaris 9 box exhibiting the problems had the recommended cluster 
> applied, which included 113073-13. We have another Solaris 9 box which 
> is running AFS fine which has 113073-05 installed.
> 
> So it seems that somewhere after at least rev 05 of patch 113073 is when 
> sun "broke" UFS as far as what AFS expects, and the kernel patches have 
> no part in this.
> 
> Reading through the release history for the 113073 patch, nothing 
> immediately sticks out as the cause of why 1) fs_interleave was removed 
> from ufs_fs.h, and 2) why vfsck now has issues with block 0 of a UFS 
> file system.

If they removed a field from the structure, all the following fields will
be off by 4 bytes. any reference to these will cause problems.
Do you have a diff of the older file, which I have and the one you have?


> 
> Can you check your S9 system for me and tell me what rev of 113073 you 
> have installed, if it is installed?

according to patchdiag both the workstation and AFS server have
113073-05 (13 is listed as current) and called "ufs and fsck patch"

> 
> /dale
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