[OpenAFS] Re: Unable to delete volume

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:45:42 -0400
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I can't, because as mentioned the volume name is also associated
>> > with another volume id that I definitely don't want to delete. To
>> > illustrate what I mean, 130.85.24.58 is the server I want to delete
>> > and the RO volume associated with it that I want to delete is named
>> > g.ilin22.local:
>
> Well, your vldb is mildly broken, then. Do you know how the other volume
> got created? Our volume creation tools should prevent you from
> duplicating a volume name.

wild guess: restored ro to alternate id while the rw had no clone;
failed removal, later clone of rw.
alternately: that was the old id for the ro and a restore later was
done to that id because that ued to be the id before deletion.

but yes, we should save you from that.

> And 'vos delentry' doesn't delete volumes. You could just 'vos delentry'
> the volume twice, and presumably that will get rid of the 'bad' one.
> Afterwards, you can run syncserv/syncvldb/'addsite -valid' to get the
> entry back for the 'good' one.

and that's probably the simplest answer.


-- 
Derrick