Hi, So far I have been able to just voldump and restorevol most of the data successfully. I have not tried vos restore yet but I will. I think my biggest problem now is reconstructing the permissions. Any suggestions?
TIA, On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/18/13 20:22, "Dimitris Z" <[email protected]> wrote: >>It looks like the rsync I did did not preserve ownership information. >>This may explain why the salvager cannot do a proper restoration of >>the volumes or why the volumes are not working. Is there a way to get >>around this? It does not really matter if they are salvaged with the >>correct owner, as long as they can be salvaged. > > You assume that the information stored in what Unix filesystems call an > owner field is necessarily related to the ownership of an AFS file. AFS > permissions work sufficiently differently from Unix permissions that I > would not want to make that assumption; it could well be used for some > *other* notion of owner, such as containing directory (since AFS > directories also are not quite like Unix directories), or even for > something else important enough to warrant storing in the inode but > unrelated to concepts of ownership. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
