[OpenAFS] Re: Change in volume status during vos dump in OpenAFS 1.6.x

[Andrew Deason]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
Andy Malato <andym@oak.njit.edu> wrote:

> We recently installed OpenAFS 1.6.2 on one of our fileservers in
> preparation for migrating the rest of our cell to the latest 1.6.x
> release.   One of the driving factors behind upgrading to 1.6.x is to
> support volumes larger than 2TB.

You can have volumes larger than 2TB with 1.4 fileservers (maybe not
1.4.5, though). I didn't think the 1.6 series changed anything with
volume size or quota limitations.

> So was this change in behavior from 1.4.x to 1.6.x intentional or are
> we encountering a bug ?  Perhaps this is being caused by our DB
> servers still being at 1.4.5 ?

It's certainly not related to what your dbservers are running. This is a
bug, probably issue 131505, probably fixed by
<http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,9499>. If you are in a position to
try a patch on a "testing" fileserver and see if that fixes it, try
applying the patch in that gerrit submission, which is here:
<http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=patch;h=e456f85887841f50a828daea54fd2efb7d33fd07>.

If you're not in a position to be applying patches, I (or someone)
should be able to reproduce that and try it ourselves. I assumed that
patch will be going in 1.6.3.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net