[OpenAFS] vos move failures?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:48:16 -0400


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Eric Chris Garrison
<ecgarris@iupui.edu> wrote:
> I've been having trouble with moving some of our larger volumes (>200GB i=
n
> size):
>
> [root@rfs3 qla2xxx]# vos move public.sudoc_01 rfs3 h rfs3 e -localauth
>
> Failed to move data for the volume 536878704
> =A0 Possible communication failure
> vos move: operation interrupted, cleanup in progress...
> clear transaction contexts
> move incomplete - attempt cleanup of target partition - no guarantee
> cleanup complete - user verify desired result
>
> The above took an hour or two, and I've seen it take longer to fail.
> Large volume moves don't always fail, just quite often.
>
> Another question is, if it's local to the same machine from one partition
> to another, why does 200GB take hours to "vos move"? =A0Any ideas?
>
> I'm using openafs-server-1.4.11-1.1.1 on RHEL 4.

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