[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:29:43 -0400


In message <34F41A7DFC194F968DA876AD24B2C9B5@CDCHOME>,"Christopher D. Clausen" 
writes:
>Would a find command execing rm do the same thing?  Or does the salvager 
>actually need to be run for a "correct" cleanup?

you could do it with rm but users tend to change their permissions
so the script would need to also change permissions on directories.
also iterating the entire cell in afs is kind of tedious.

>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.)

dont know.  i suppose vos move could certainly choose not to move
.__afs files.