[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage
Robert Banz
rob@nofocus.org
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:49:51 -0700
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Just curious,
What makes you think running salvage is a good thing? I had gotten to
the point where I would avoid running it like the plague -- using
tools such as fast-restart -- and in the time I was running fast-
restart, which included some rather nasty power events which took
things down hard. And, believe it or not, even in those incidents I
only had one or two volumes that I had to hand-salvage.
-rob
On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Andrew Bacchi wrote:
> Thanks, Esther. I can always count on you for good advice.
>
> I usually run salvage by hand once or twice a year, but my gut says
> run it more often. I'll write a script that runs on odd months and
> call it from either linux-cron or afs-cron. One drawback of afs-
> cron is it only knows a weekly time schedule. Could we put that on
> a wish list?
>
> Esther Filderman wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@rpi.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm considering running a weekly salvage on all file servers from
>>> BosConfig.
>>> Is this too often? Any reason not to? What are others doing?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> At my last *cough* site, we ran with fast-restart. Because of the
>> cruft that would sometimes get left behind in volumes due to things
>> like crappy fortran compilers, I would run a salvage on each server
>> every 2-3 months. As there were rarely any real errors, it ran
>> pretty quickly and would fit in my "official downtime" window.
>>
>> I used to run 'em by hand because, well, I only had like 6 servers
>> (and I'm a hands-on kinda Moose), but it easily could have been
>> automated.
>>
>> Moose
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<html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; =
-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Just =
curious,</div><div><br></div><div>What makes you think running salvage =
is a good thing? I had gotten to the point where I would avoid running =
it like the plague -- using tools such as fast-restart -- and in the =
time I was running fast-restart, which included some rather nasty power =
events which took things down hard. And, believe it or not, even in =
those incidents I only had one or two volumes that I had to =
hand-salvage.</div><div><br></div><div>-rob</div><br><div><html>On Apr =
3, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Andrew Bacchi wrote:</html><br =
class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"> <div =
bgcolor=3D"#ffffff" text=3D"#000000"> Thanks, Esther. I can =
always count on you for good advice.<br> <br> I usually run salvage by =
hand once or twice a year, but my gut says run it more often. I'll =
write a script that runs on odd months and call it from either =
linux-cron or afs-cron. One drawback of afs-cron is it only knows =
a weekly time schedule. Could we put that on a wish list?<br> <br> =
Esther Filderman wrote: <blockquote =
cite=3D"midcff20b320804030635i390b164i130a32159795d787@mail.gmail.com" =
type=3D"cite"> <pre wrap=3D"">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Andrew =
Bacchi <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" =
href=3D"mailto:bacchi@rpi.edu"><bacchi@rpi.edu></a> wrote:
</pre> <blockquote type=3D"cite"> <pre wrap=3D"">I'm considering =
running a weekly salvage on all file servers from BosConfig.
Is this too often? Any reason not to? What are others doing? Thanks.
</pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=3D""><!---->At my last *cough* =
site, we ran with fast-restart. Because of the
cruft that would sometimes get left behind in volumes due to things
like crappy fortran compilers, I would run a salvage on each server
every 2-3 months. As there were rarely any real errors, it ran
pretty quickly and would fit in my "official downtime" window.
I used to run 'em by hand because, well, I only had like 6 servers
(and I'm a hands-on kinda Moose), but it easily could have been
automated.
Moose
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Andrew Bacchi
Staff Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518 276-6415 fax: 518 276-2809
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