Basic questions. Which client platform and version?
Is the mount point to the volume being evaluated from a rw volume instance? Once a rw volume is encountered in the path all volume access will be to the rw volume. (unless a mount point is explicitly to the volume.readonly.) On 12/20/2013 7:11 PM, Timothy Balcer wrote: > ˇTo be more clear.. the problematic server (one I was salvaging) had thr > RW/RO pair, and was pref 5005. I set it to 35000 through fs > getserverprefs > /tmp/foo, editing that file, and reissuing it through > fs setserverprefs -stdin. The other Fileservers which had RO copies were > now at about 20000. > > It still went for the 35000 pref server. > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Timothy Balcer <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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 <tel:%28415%29%20300-4313> > Customer Service / (800) 205-5510 > > > > > -- > Timothy Balcer / IT Services > Telmate / San Francisco, CA > Direct / (415) 300-4313 > Customer Service / (800) 205-5510
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