[OpenAFS] Openafs Failover Problem

[Chris Huebsch]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Stefan Heimers wrote:

> But if I don't do a graceful shutdown, but rather turn off the power on one
> machine, the afs server won't work on the other. Filesystems are mounted,
> processes are started, but the clients cannot access afs directories.

Are you sure, that your fileserver is really running and ready to serve
client requests. After the fsck by the OS, afs runs a kind of fsck on it
own (called salvager).

Is it possible that the salvager just did not finish its work?


Chris
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