Shadow volumes by their very definition never enter the vldb. Steve
On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Arne Wiebalck wrote: > Dear all, > > If detecting shadow volumes, does 'vos syncvldb' really update VLDB entries > to point to the shadow location instead of the location of the R/W source > volume > as stated in the man page? (Some simple tests and a quick check in the code > seem to indicate that at least in 1.4 this is not the case). > > Would I need to run 'vos delentry' on all volumes before running 'vos > syncvldb' > on the shadow server or is there something else I should do? > > I assume that in a disaster recovery situation where the source server is not > reachable I probably need to delete the entries anyway as > - 'vos syncvldb' will need a macroscopic timeout for each volume on the > unreachable server, and > - it will not even update VLDB in the end if communication fails. Correct? > > TIA, > Arne > > -- > Arne Wiebalck > CERN IT/DSS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
