[OpenAFS] Volume space "lost in space".

[Anders Magnusson]

Harald Barth wrote:

>>We have encountered a strange error here on a volume.  vos examine (or fs lq) says that it is 15G in size,
>>but du can only find 4G in the volume.  salvager do not find anything wrong with the volume.
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>Have you told it to reattach orphan files during salvage?
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No, I hadn't.  I didn't realize that "bos salvage" didn't complain 
directly but I needed to
do "bos getlog" to see it.  But Derrick corrected me :-)

-- Ragge

>You may have salvaging errors. I think there was a bug in the salvager that was fixed in 1.4.8. 
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>>Any hints?  The fileserver runs 1.4.5 (on RHEL4).  Reading the RELNOTES for the later releases
>>shows nothing about a fix for this problem.
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>Before you run the salvager across the volume, have a look at the file tree on /vicep*.
>If your volume number is 4711:
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>$ /afs/stacken.kth.se/home/haba/bin/scripts/volid.pl  4711
>     4711:    /vicep?/AFSIDat/b=/b7=
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>that is your tree. How big is that? If you make a tar of that and the
>V04711 file, you have everything to start over if things go wrong.
>Don't forget the -p when unpacking the tar, there _is_ info that
>matters in these bits.
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>Harald.
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