[OpenAFS] Volumes going offline, cacheing question

2006-10-16 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
My Sun storedge 3510 array has cacheing turned on... I just found this out. I don't have logging turned on for the partitions, but does disk cacheing cause troubles? This is what I'm using for the fileservers. However, it's really the general question I'm curious about. And btw, a thanks

Re: [OpenAFS] Volumes going offline, needing salvage?

2006-10-14 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
ck J Brashear wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Joseph Di Lellio wrote: > > > From BosLog and the previous night, a number of these: > > Fri Oct 13 01:45:41 2006: fs:vol exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > What was in the VolserLog then, then? >

Re: [OpenAFS] Volumes going offline, needing salvage?

2006-10-13 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
A point of clarification: the old DB servers are not in the cell. AFS has been turned off (verified n times), binaries/paths moved or deleted, rc files gone, etc. I have left them up for reference with nothing running on them. On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Joseph Di Lellio wrote: > > Yes, I hi

Re: [OpenAFS] Volumes going offline, needing salvage?

2006-10-13 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
te: > > > On Friday, October 13, 2006 04:32:45 PM -0700 Joseph Di Lellio > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue(s) might be? The logs > > have given me some bits, but mostly the obvious ones like needing to > &g

[OpenAFS] Volumes going offline, needing salvage?

2006-10-13 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
I have a problem with a new AFS filserver I've set up. It is not yet a major issue, but I strongly suspect it can be. Our architecture is such that we have three fileservers and three DB servers. I'm still migrating from TransArc to OpenAFS, after a fashion. My old DB servers are gone, r

[OpenAFS] A syncvldb problem?

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
I've got a problem that I have some clues on how to fix, but not enough to go ahead for fear of making things worse. I have a few volumes that are on a new fileserver. I've just moved them, but when vos ex them I get the following: Could not fetch the information about volume 536919169 fr