[OpenAFS] 1.3.77 under AIX 5.1: unusable

[Hans-Gunther Borrmann]

Hello all,

here is the result of my seriously testing of 1.3.77 under AIX 5.1:

The server is not usable:
=B0 VOLSERVER IS BROKEN
	"vos move" and "vos dump" from a 1.3.77 server do not work. The error mess=
age
	of volserver in the log is "Volser: DumpFile: no memory".
	Moving volumes from a TRANSARC Server to the OpenAFS Server some volumes g=
ot
	seriously damaged. If a process on a client tried to access such a volume =
the
	process hung completely.
	volserver crashed frequently.
	"vos zap -force" may loop forever, volserver producing one core dump after
	the other.
	fileserver and volserver both from 1.3.65 work.
=B0SALVAGER IS BROKEN
	it crashes always, even during salvaging an intact volume:
	SalvageLog:
	@(#) OpenAFS 1.3.77 built  2005-01-18
	02/01/2005 14:57:25 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/afs/bin/salvager /vice=
pcp
 	537087849)
	02/01/2005 14:57:25 2 nVolumesInInodeFile 56
	02/01/2005 14:57:28 CHECKING CLONED VOLUME 537087980.
	02/01/2005 14:57:28 usr.hgb.backup (537087980) updated 01/24/2005 14:15
	02/01/2005 14:57:28 "Salvage volume group" core dumped!
	salvager from 1.3.65 doesn't work either. It does not crash but produces o=
nly
	an error message

The client is not usable:
	the kernnel extensions crash the system or fileservers get suddenly
	unavailable and stay so. One has to reboot to get them back. This is
	definitely a problem of the kernel extensions. No version of them from
	openafs.org work for me.

See also my previous postings.

If there is any way to help to solve these problems (besides providing=20
patches. Unfortunately I am not a programmer), I'll try to do it.

Gunther
=2D-=20
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