[OpenAFS] Re: help, salvaged volume won't come back online, is it corrupt? [trimmed log]

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Adam Megacz wrote:

>
> John Koyle <jkoyle@koyle.org> writes:
>> That's the problem I'm having and it appears to be due to the root
>> vnode being missing or corrupt.  Apparantly the bos salvager cannot
>> fix this problem.  From the research I've done, it doesn't appear to
>> be possible (not easily anyway).
>
> Even if the root vnode is missing, I'd be quite happy with it
> reattaching whatever vnodes are floating around to some "bit bucket"
> directory the way ext2 puts stuff in lost+found.  Or even just dumping
> every *file* to a flat directory full of files I can grep through to
> find the handful that I need.

dumptool will dump all the vnodes to a flat file. or salvager with 
-orphans attach will attach orphaned vnodes.