Re: [OpenAFS] LiveCD for openafs disaster recovery scenarios ?

2006-11-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hello At least one (and possibly two) hard disks on the machine (has RAID 5 - rebuild did not help too much) that runs our openafs cell failed today. This is a Debian machine. Partition /usr is down and attempts

Re: [OpenAFS] LiveCD for openafs disaster recovery scenarios ?

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Devine
Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hello At least one (and possibly two) hard disks on the machine (has RAID 5 - rebuild did not help too much) that runs our openafs cell failed today. This is a Debian machine. Partition /usr is down and attempts to mount it fail with bad superblock messages.

Re: [OpenAFS] LiveCD for openafs disaster recovery scenarios ?

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Polek
I have a suggestion... if you have another machine with the same O/S, export the /usr partition via NFS readonly. Change your fstab on the damaged host to mount /usr from the NFS server host. It should work, similar to the way diskless booting works. Once the machine is up and running, you could

[OpenAFS] LiveCD for openafs disaster recovery scenarios ?

2006-11-06 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hello At least one (and possibly two) hard disks on the machine (has RAID 5 - rebuild did not help too much) that runs our openafs cell failed today. This is a Debian machine. Partition /usr is down and attempts to mount it fail with bad superblock messages. As a result, all network