> Actually, the only information recorded in the owner and group is the > data version, and that copy is noncritical except to allow the salvager > to recover from a corrupted vnode index, which it doesn't do very well > anyway. The authoritative copy of this information lives in the vnode > index, so it should be fairly simple to write a tool which walks the > vnode indexes for each volume and repairs the owner and group on the > underlying files.
After restoring the whole original operating system along with the AFS data I was finally able to access all but one of my old volumes so I could at least easily get my data back. So it's not all impossible to get it working again when ownership information is gone. Matthias
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