[OpenAFS] Help needed for receovery of data of inode fileserver (Solaris 10 x86)

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Jeffrey Altman
<jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> John Tang Boyland wrote:
>
> > ] There may be patches in 1.4.7-pre2 that might help.
> >
> >
>   04/03/2008 08:24:41 SALVAGING VOLUME 536870912.
>
> > 04/03/2008 08:24:41 Part of the header (Volume information) is corrupted
> > 04/03/2008 08:24:41 totalInodes 165
> > 04/03/2008 08:24:41 "Salvage volume group" core dumped!
> >
>
>
> > Is there a way for the core files to be found?  It seems
> > that bos/salvager deletes them?  "ulimit" says "unlimited".
> > There's no core files in /usr/afs/logs, /tmp or /var/tmp
> >
>
>  There are two things you can try.
>
>  1. Force the salvager to run without forking by running it with "-parallel
> 1".  That might get you a core file.
>
>  2. Run the salvager manually under gdb.

and if you do 2, you don't care: set it to follow forked children, and
then collect the core.