On 12-02-23, Andrew Deason wrote: > Thanks. This is due to some of the more odd parts of the salvager design > (and I think has been around for a while)... an RO volume in this > environment that is "bad" because of volume data (but the volume > metadata is fine) will currently cause the volume data to go away, but > the headers and stuff will stick around. So after one salvage, the RO > volume is unusable until you salvage it again and the RO volume is > deleted because there's no data associated with the headers. > > This is not quite as a noticeable with DAFS because, among other > reasons, the volume will just get salvaged automatically twice. > > I think the patches I've submitted in gerrit 6783-6787 will fix this > situation. But it shouldn't be too urgent for you or anything; you > should be fine if you just salvage the relevant volumes twice as you > have been doing. So if you're fine with how your environment is now, > there's nothing further you need to do.
We still have a few volumes going offline each day, but we will solve that with preventive salvaging. However, we now have a understanding of what is going on and how to handle the problem, so thanks a lot for your help! Åsa Andersson School of Computer Science and Communication Royal Institute of Technology > > -- > Andrew Deason > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
