On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Matthias Gerstner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > >> Please save the log if it happens again. Just a directory object being >> corrupt will not delete its children unless you pass '-orphans remove' >> to the salvager. However, the default, '-orphans ignore' will keep >> orphaned data around but it will be effectively invisible until you >> salvage with '-orphans attach'. > > yes I understand this mechanism regarding orphaned files. I was using > the default. However, attaching the orphaned files wouldn't have helped > me much in this particular case. As I mentioned the volume contained > about 3.5 millions files and the directory structure was a crucial part > of the data. I would never have been able to reconstruct the original > data. > >> That version is known to have issues with data corruption/loss, which >> are fixed in pre4. I don't know if that's what you're hitting, though. >> (You can also run a newer client with older servers just fine.) > > So it seems I'm better off falling back to 1.6.0 on the server side > then.
1.6.0 has the same bug, so, not really. 1.6.1pre4 would be a much better choice. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
