[OpenAFS] reading files from problem volume

[sabah s. salih]

I have remounted  the old /vicepc as /vicepcc and created new /vicepc. =0A=
The old /vicepc have a hardware problem. =0A=
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  Many Thanks, Sabah.=0A=
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>From Sabah Salih=0A=
Particle Physics Group,=0A=
The School of Physics and Astronomy,=0A=
The University of Manchester,=0A=
Schuster Laboratory,=0A=
Brunswick Street,=0A=
Manchester M13 9PL.=0A=
Tel: +44 1612754171 or  x4171=0A=
E-mail: sabah.salih@hep.manchester.ac.uk=0A=
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From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [jhutz@cmu.edu]=0A=
Sent: 22 August 2013 22:09=0A=
To: sabah s. salih=0A=
Cc: jhutz@cmu.edu; openafs-info@openafs.org=0A=
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] reading files from problem volume=0A=
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On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 14:24 +0000, sabah s. salih wrote:=0A=
> Dear All,=0A=
>       We have the following case. Is there away where we could recover fi=
les from this volume please.=0A=
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> # vos exam 536873829=0A=
> vsu_ClientInit: Could not get afs tokens, running unauthenticated.=0A=
> Could not fetch the information about volume 536873829 from the server=0A=
> : No such device=0A=
> Volume does not exist on server afs21.hep.manchester.ac.uk as indicated b=
y the VLDB=0A=
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> Dump only information from VLDB=0A=
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> kiran=0A=
>     RWrite: 536873829=0A=
>     number of sites -> 1=0A=
>        server afs21.hep.manchester.ac.uk partition /vicepc RW Site=0A=
> [root@afs21 vicepcc]#=0A=
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> [root@afs21 vicepcc]# ls /vicepcc/V0536873829.vol=0A=
> /vicepcc/V0536873829.vol=0A=
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So, the VLDB says the volume is on /vicepc, but you salvaged a volume=0A=
on /vicepcc.  The fileserver is not very clever about the same volume=0A=
appearing on multiple partitions; if there _is_ a volume header=0A=
on /vicepc, then the server is likely trying to online that one instead=0A=
of the one on /vicepcc.=0A=
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