[OpenAFS] vos changeloc

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:08:33 -0500


On Feb 12, 2008 12:31 PM, Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@rpi.edu> wrote:
> I have a fileserver down with only one volume on it on SAN disk.  I can
> attach the disk to another fileserver to get to the volume.  I tried
> 'vos changeloc" to tell the VLDB the new location of the volume, but
> that just hangs without any response.
>
i assume it's trying to talk to the old server, if you tcpdump.

> I don't see any documentation on changeloc.  Is this an old command, or
> newly added by OAFS?  Any ideas on moving a volume without the original
> fileserver running?

well, you can certainly cheat if nothing else works, delentry the old
entry then syncvldb