Questions that pop into mind:

1) what versions of the clients were involved?

2) what was the output of vos examine on the volume names?

3) same problem after a cache manager shutdown and restart?

4) same problem from Unix and Windows clients?

Jeffrey Altman


Kim Kimball wrote:
> Had a weird one on Thursday, and am looking for any plausible
> explanation so I can close out the incident report.
> My best answer right now is NAFC (not an effing clue.)
> 
> I'm using "X-mounted" to describe "volume named in mountpoint" not equal
> to "volume accessed at mountpoint"
> 
> Probably relevant:  We were moving volumes to clear a file server, and
> noticed an unusual number of orphaned volumes.
> When I went to start 'vos zapping' the orphans, many of them  turned out
> to be those that incorrectly showed up at a given mount point.
> 
> Could it be that the 'vos move' failures that created the orphans are
> the proximate cause of the X-mounts?  If so, how could the two be related?
> 
> Any FC greatly appreciated.
> 
> Kim
> 
> ====================================
> Synopsis:
> 
> From any AFS client, the volume named in a mount point was not the
> volume actually accessed
> 
> 
> Initial symptom:
>       web servers start puking when invoking perl modules
>       cd to path where perl modules are expected, and instead of perl
> modules see bunch of unrelated png libraries
>       check mount point to volume containing perl modules, and mount
> point correctly names perl volume
>       fs lq on mount point returns name of volume containing png
> libraries -- not the name of the volume specified in fs lsm
> 
> The diagnostic:
>    fs lsm <path/mountpoint>   --> volumeA
>    fs lq   <path/mountpoint>   --> volumeZ
> 
> Confirmation:
>    cd <path/mountpoint>
>    ls
>            ----- returns list of files/directories stored in volumeZ
> 
> The mount point is correct; that is, fs lsm returns the expected volume
> name.
> The volume accessed at the mount point is incorrect.
> The files/directories in the incorrectly accessed volume are correct.
> 
> -------------------------------
> We turned up forty plus instances of  X-mounted (for lack of a better
> word) volumes.
> 
> The fix:
>    remove the mount point
>    release the volume (containing mount point)
>    create same mount point
>    release volume again
> 
>    vos addsite newserver newpart _mounted_ volume (as named in mount point)
>    vos release _mounted_ volume
>      fs checkv
> 
> Then get expected responses.
>        fs lsm <path/mountpoint>   --> volumeA
>        fs lq   <path/mountpoint>   --> volumeA
> 
> ========================
> 
> Other efforts:
> 
> I did restart the fs instances on all file servers, suspecting some sort
> of off-by-one'ish glitch in some unknown index/table/?
> 
> The restarts had no impact.
> 
> 'vos move" of the volume containing the mount point did not help.
> 
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> 
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