[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

Christopher D. Clausen cclausen@acm.org
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:14:53 -0500


Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> In message <2FC76D11-48C4-43F0-8AD4-072B4B649DAC@nofocus.org>,Robert
> Banz write s:
>> 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
>
> running salvage once in a while is a good way to clean up .__afsNNNN
> files.

Would a find command execing rm do the same thing?  Or does the salvager 
actually need to be run for a "correct" cleanup?

Also, is it not possible to have a volume "salvaged" during a vos move? 
(I realize this may not happen in the code now, just if such a thing is 
indeed possible.)

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