I took down a file server for salvaging today, part of routine maintenance. It had a RW/RO pair on it of volume 'photos', and there were two RO copies on two other fileservers (on other networks).These RO copies are mounted and online.
When the salvage process started, nothing could talk to the RO path to the mount. Got some 'Device doesn't exist' sort of errors. Even on the remote network fileservers. VLDB entries are clean. Releases are all congruent. Tried manually setting pref via fs setserverprefs.. set that server pref to 35000 Still tries to access the local RW/RO volume for the RO path.. doing an strace showed this was true. The problem will fix itself once the salvage is over, but this is disturbing... what can I do to avoid this sort of problem in future? Am I doing something wrong here? Better troubleshooting? Advice appreciated :) -- Timothy Balcer / IT Services Telmate / San Francisco, CA Direct / (415) 300-4313 Customer Service / (800) 205-5510
