Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Wouldn't it be an option to not take over the IP address, but just the > vice partition? Once failure of the peer is recognized and confirmed > (which is a problem, I agree, but not at all AFS-specific): > > 1) stonith > 2) mount the new vice partition and salvage it > [ 2a) is there a need to restart the fileserver? ] > 3) vos syncvldb
You would also require a
4) vos syncserv
> There must be some thinko in all this, or people would be doing this a
> lot. What is it I'm overlooking?
I believe this scenario will not work because the VLDB entries for all
of the volumes that are being mounted by Server B are listed as being
on Server A. Since Server A is unreachable, the volume server when
performing the "vos syncvldb" and "vos syncserv" steps will not be able
to verify that the volume is no longer on Server A. Therefore, there
is now an "irreconcilable conflict" that will cause the vos command to
"write a message to the standard error stream." The vos "command never
removes volumes from file server machines." The quotes are from the man
pages for "vos syncvldb" and "vos sycnserv".
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