[OpenAFS] Re: can neither delete nor use backup volume (DA server 1.6.0pre2)

[Andrew Deason]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:18:14 -0500
John Tang Boyland <boyland@pabst.cs.uwm.edu> wrote:

> admin 87 % vos zap jeremiah a fa11.cs351.backup -force -verbose
> vos: forcibly removing all traces of volume 536875958, please wait...done.

Also just by the way, 'vos zap -force' is not a very smart tool, and it
usually doesn't make a lot of sense for non-RW volumes. For RO and BK
volumes, all it does is remove a few header files without touching any
of the data, which is not what you want to do.

If you have a troublesome non-RW volume, and 'vos remove/zap' and
salvaging does not help, my general advice is just to stop right there
(don't do 'vos zap -force'). Those two should handle every possible
case, so if they are not handling it then there's a bug. Trying more
things might make things worse or lose valuable debugging information.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net