[OpenAFS] Volume off-line after DB upgrade and VLDB lists wrong location

[Staffan Hämälä]

I tried a vos syncvldb, which seems to have fixed things.

/Staffan

On 2012-11-25 08:10, Staffan Hämälä wrote:
> After an upgrade of our DB servers to 1.6.1 (not sure if related to the
> problem), and OS updates and reboots of all file servers yesterday, I
> noticed that one volume has a strange error that I've not seen before.
> The fileservers are all dafs 1.6.1 (upgraded a few months ago).
>
> One volume appears off-line, and a vos exa doesn't even find any
> information:
>
> vos exa staff.xyz
> Could not fetch the information about volume 537689471 from the server
> : No such device
> Volume does not exist on server afsfs1.its.ltu.se as indicated by the V=
LDB
>
> Dump only information from VLDB
>
> staff.xyz
>      RWrite: 537689471     Backup: 537689473
>      number of sites -> 1
>         server afsfs1.its.ltu.se partition /vicepc RW Site
>
>
> I happened to have a record of the location of the volume, where I saw
> that the volume used to be in partition a, not c.
>
> On the file server, I've checked:
> $ ls -l /vicepc/*537689471*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 21 okt 19.19 /vicepc/V0537689471.vol
> $ ls -l /vicepa/*537689471*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 21 okt 16.26 /vicepa/V0537689471.vol
>
>
> vos listvol afsfs1 a gives:
> staff.xyz                      537689471 RW  151580897 K Off-line
>
>
> vos listvol afsfs1 c gives this error:
> **** Could not attach volume 537689471 ****
>
>
> vos listvldb staff.xyz -s afsfs1 -p a lists partition c:
>
> staff.xyz
>      RWrite: 537689471     Backup: 537689473
>      number of sites -> 1
>         server afsfs1.its.ltu.se partition /vicepc RW Site
>
>
> FileLog on the server has these errors:
> Sat Nov 24 16:02:26 2012 Warning: Duplicate volume id 537689471 detecte=
d.
> Sat Nov 24 16:34:06 2012 Volume 537689471 offline: not in service
> (repeated lots of times)
>
>
> What should we do about this? Will a vos remove of the volume on
> partition c make it find the correct one, on partition a, instead?
>
> /Staffan
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