On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:56:58AM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote:
> By and large our system is working great and we see few conflicts.
> Today, however, we got one and I am not sure how to fix it.
>
> If I use the repair tool, I get this:
>
> repair > beginrepair passwd_manage
> Too few directory entries
> Could not allocate replica list
> beginrepair failed.
>
> If I use cfs beginrepair, the "global" file is a broken link. And
> really, what can you do besides examine the conflict after you've used
> cfs to begin a repair?
It is a combination of a server-server (resolution) conflict and a
local-global (reintegration) conflict.
The reintegration probably failed because of the server-server conflict.
This is a problematic case because both types of conflicts are handled
very differently and the client can't fix the underlying server-server
conflict because it is 'hidden' by the reintegration.
Right now the options are, fix the server-server conflict from another
client which may then allow reintegration to succeed, or purge the cml
to get rid of the local-global conflict, and repair the remaining
server-server from this client.
> I can't rm it and don't know how to replace it or get rid of it. Any
> suggestions?
cfs purgeml should get rid of the local-global (reintegration) conflict.
At this point you would only have the server-server conflict left, if
this is a file it can be completely removed with
removeinc passwd_manage
or repaired with,
cfs beginrepair passwd_manage
cp passwd_manage/some_replica /tmp/passwd_manage.recovered
cfs endrepair passwd_manage
filerepair passwd_manage /tmp/passwd_manage.recovered
Jan
