Hi! I was trying to move a volume to another fileserver, when I found out, that my vldb seems to be confused. What is about these orphaned volumes and why are there duplicate site entries in root.afs and root.cell? I appreciate any help on this.
Alex smith@hostAAAA:~$ vos syncvldb HOSTbbbb VLDB synchronized with state of server HOSTbbbb smith@hostAAAA:~$ vos syncvldb -verbose hostAAAA [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processing volume entry 4: some.vol (536871004) on server hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa... *** Warning: Orphaned RW volume 536871004 exists on hostAAAA.mydomain.com/vicepa VLDB reports RW volume 536871004 exists on hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa _______________________________ -- status before -- some.vol RWrite: 536871004 ROnly: 536871005 number of sites -> 2 server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RW Site server HOSTbbbb.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site -- status after -- **no change** _______________________________ ...done entry 4 [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processing volume entry 21: root.cell (536870915) on server hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa... *** Warning: Orphaned RW volume 536870915 exists on hostAAAA.mydomain.com/vicepa VLDB reports RW volume 536870915 exists on hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa _______________________________ -- status before -- root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 4 server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RW Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server HOSTbbbb.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site -- status after -- **no change** _______________________________ ...done entry 21 Processing volume entry 22: root.cell.readonly (536870916) on server hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa... _______________________________ -- status before -- root.cell RWrite: 536870915 ROnly: 536870916 number of sites -> 4 server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RW Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server HOSTbbbb.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site -- status after -- **no change** _______________________________ ...done entry 22 Processing volume entry 23: root.afs (536870912) on server hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa... *** Warning: Orphaned RW volume 536870912 exists on hostAAAA.mydomain.com/vicepa VLDB reports RW volume 536870912 exists on hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa _______________________________ -- status before -- root.afs RWrite: 536870912 ROnly: 536870913 number of sites -> 4 server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RW Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server HOSTbbbb.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site -- status after -- **no change** _______________________________ ...done entry 23 Processing volume entry 24: root.afs.readonly (536870913) on server hostAAAA.mydomain.com /vicepa... _______________________________ -- status before -- root.afs RWrite: 536870912 ROnly: 536870913 number of sites -> 4 server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RW Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server HOSTbbbb.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa RO Site -- status after -- **no change** _______________________________ ...done entry 24 Total entries: 24, Failed to process 0, Changed 0 VLDB synchronized with state of server hostAAAA smith@hostAAAA:~$ vos move -v some.vol hostAAAA vicepa HOSTbbbb vicepa The volume 536871004 is not on the specified site. The current site is : server hostAAAA.mydomain.com partition /vicepa Error in vos move command. VOLSER: volume has moved