[OpenAFS] Replication error

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:32:20 +0100


On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Juha J=E4ykk=E4 wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I hit a strange error this morning. I did a little mass-resync of our
> read-only replicas this morning (it was a bos cron job, ran at 5:30 =20=

> in the
> morning with absolutely no users around). Vos release reported =20
> success for
> all volumes, but VolserLog of the fileserver in question says =20
> (these are
> from the RW & RO site; there are equivalent lines in the RO fileserver
> logs as well; each is just 12 seconds later)
>
> Wed Mar  1 05:38:57 2006 trans 472 on volume 536870933 is older =20
> than 300 seconds
> Wed Mar  1 05:39:27 2006 trans 472 on volume 536870933 is older =20
> than 330 seconds
> Wed Mar  1 05:39:57 2006 trans 472 on volume 536870933 is older =20
> than 360 seconds
> Wed Mar  1 05:40:27 2006 trans 472 on volume 536870933 is older =20
> than 390 seconds
> Wed Mar  1 05:40:57 2006 trans 472 on volume 536870933 is older =20
> than 420 seconds
>
> What's going on? I found some mails in the archive with the same log
> entries but they all had had their vos release return with an =20
> error! What
> concerns me most here is that vos actually told me the volume was =20
> released
> successfully. We are doing regular resyncs of the RO volumes =20
> automatically
> and not getting an error message from something automatic goes awry is
> quite bad.

AFAIK, that's just an informative log entry.
It's telling you that the volume release took longer than X seconds. =20
It's nothing wrong with that.

Horst=