[OpenAFS] Re: 'vos dump' destroys volumes?

[Kim Kimball]

Of course.  Didn't look at the numeric IDs.  I assume that's what
happened here?

On 3/26/2012 2:19 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Kim Kimball <dhk@ccre.com> wrote:
>> Dumping the RW volume makes it "busy" during the dump, which makes the
>> volume unwritable -- and generates "afs: Waiting for busy volume" errors
>> when a write occurs.
>>
>> Dumping the .backup is not just a good practice, in my opinion, it is
>> the only sensible practice if keeping writability is important.  Large
>> volumes can take a while to dump --
>>
>> Identifying the software version that is running is better done with
>> "rxdebug" -- it's a nit, but the binaries are not guaranteed to be the
>> same as what's running -- and the "strings | grep" approach only tells
>> you what version the binary is, and not what the running version is ...
>>
>> It does look like more than one operation was in progress -- a volume
>> delete isn't part of a volume dump
> the temporary clone gets cleaned up at the end.
>