[OpenAFS] Re: Reoccuring salvager errors/fixes

[Andrew Deason]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:44:47 +0100
Matthias Gerstner <matthias.gerstner@esolutions.de> wrote:

> I had to forcibly shutdown the file server once or twice but that is
> already months ago. And the file server immediatly started a salvage
> after starting it up again.
> 
> Then one time I foolishly ran the 'salvager' command directly for a
> volume, without taking it offline. That messed up things for that
> volume pretty much.

It shouldn't. The salvager itself will take a volume offline if run
against a single volume. All 'bos salvage' does for single-volume
requests is run the salvager. How are you normally scheduling these
salvages?

> I didn't recognize any actual problems when working with AFS, however.
> It's just that it makes me feel uncomfortable when these fixes need to
> be made time and again by the salvager.

As well it should. What filesystem are you using for the /vicep*
partitions?

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Andrew Deason
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