As people on the list may know, I am in the process of recovering from complete fileserver failure (lesson: don't use inode servers with Solaris 10 x86). In what follows, "filip" is an inode Solaris 10 x86 fileserver that cannot attach any of its volumes. "eastside" is a namei Solaris 10 fileserver (a PC dragged in to fill the gap when the main fileservers failed) and "solomons" is an ancient Solaris 8 (sparc) fileserver brought out of retirement for the same reason. "filip" was the second fileserver to fail -- after the first failed, I brought up eastside and released several important volumes (such as root.cell) to eastside, and thus when filip failed a week later, at least a RO copy was available. (I wasn't actually expecting filip to fail since it had been working fine for two years without incident.)
I have been using the new helpful command "vos convertROtoRW" to convert volumes. (BTW: thanks for the man page on openafs.org -- maybe I should point out that the "PRIVILEGE REQUIRED" section looks like it was copied from "vos move"). The problem is that the conversion takes the volume offline requiring a salvage. I have been nervous about salvaging (see other messages) but fortunately salvage works uneventfully. I've used vos convertROtoRW earlier on a less important volume. In the end everything's OK, but still I'd like to ask: is this salvage requirement a known feature? (In this transcript: /usr/afsws/bin is in AFS but /usr/afs/bin is on the local disk -- thankfully! -- and the former is on my path. And yes, I'm running with admin tokens in a user account ON the new fileserver -- I said this was a temporary stopgap arrangement.) eastside.cs 71 % vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 4 server filip.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site server filip.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site -- Not released eastside.cs 72 % vos convertROtoRW eastside a root.cell VLDB indicates that a RW volume exists already on filip.cs.uwm.edu in partition /vicepa. Overwrite this VLDB entry? [y|n] (n) y eastside.cs 73 % vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 3 server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site -- Not released server filip.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site eastside.cs 74 % vos remsite filip a root.cell /usr/afsws/etc/vos: No such device eastside.cs 75 % vos listvldb root.cell /usr/afsws/etc/vos: Connection timed out eastside.cs 76 % /usr/afs/bin/vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 3 server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site -- Not released server filip.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site eastside.cs 77 % /usr/afs/bin/vos remsite filip a root.cell Deleting the replication site for volume 536870915 ...Removed replication site filip /vicepa for volume root.cell eastside.cs 78 % /usr/afs/bin/vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 2 server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site -- Not released server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site eastside.cs 79 % vos release root.cell /usr/afsws/etc/vos: Connection timed out eastside.cs 80 % /usr/afs/bin/vos release root.cell Failed to start transaction on volume 536870915 Volume needs to be salvaged Error in vos release command. Volume needs to be salvaged eastside.cs 81 % /usr/afs/bin/vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 2 server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site -- Not released server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site eastside.cs 82 % /usr/afs/bin/bos salvage eastside a root.cell Starting salvage. bos: salvage completed eastside.cs 83 % vos listvldb root.cell /usr/afsws/etc/vos: Connection timed out eastside.cs 84 % /usr/afs/bin/vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 2 server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site -- Not released server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site eastside.cs 85 % /usr/afs/bin/vos addsite eastside a root.cell Added replication site eastside /vicepa for volume root.cell eastside.cs 86 % /usr/afs/bin/vos release root.cell Released volume root.cell successfully eastside.cs 87 % fs checkv usage: /usr/openwin/bin/xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] eastside.cs 88 % /usr/afsws/bin/fs checkv /usr/afsws/bin/fs: Connection timed out eastside.cs 89 % /usr/afs/bin/fs checkv All volumeID/name mappings checked. eastside.cs 90 % /usr/afsws/bin/fs checks All servers are running. eastside.cs 91 % vos listvldb root.cell root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 3 server solomons.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RW Site server eastside.cs.uwm.edu partition /vicepa RO Site _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info