Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-18 Thread Rainer Toebbicke
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: I have to admit I'm a little curious why you switched from inode to namei on a Solaris server... A little bit off-topic: Admittedly I frowned myself for years at voices promoting the use of the namei fileserver in favour of the inode one, until... on the

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-18 Thread Dale Ghent
Rainer Toebbicke wrote: A little bit off-topic: Admittedly I frowned myself for years at voices promoting the use of the namei fileserver in favour of the inode one, until... on the inode fileserver the inc(), dec() operations always translate into real I/Os. You cannot do a lot such

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-14 Thread Renata Maria Dart
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Under the circumstances you describe, yes, this is normal. However, you switched to namei, which doesn't have that feature (and can't, since it doesn't use a modified fsck). So on your first start, the bosserver forced a salvage, but there weren't

[OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi, we recently had a fileserver crash because of an ecache error. When the server came back up it had the further misfortune of a fibre channel adapter error which prevented the drives containing the vice partitions from coming back online. Once those issues were dealt with, the system was again

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 09:41:49 AM -0700 Renata Maria Dart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we recently had a fileserver crash because of an ecache error. When the server came back up it had the further misfortune of a fibre channel adapter error which prevented the drives containing the

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Dan Pritts
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:49:50PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: I have to admit I'm a little curious why you switched from inode to namei on a Solaris server... Interestingly, I have been considering moving to solaris as my afs server platform (from linux) and have been wondering what the

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvager did not run automatically on solaris 9, 1.4.1-rc10

2006-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 07:10:24 PM -0400 Dan Pritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:49:50PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: I have to admit I'm a little curious why you switched from inode to namei on a Solaris server... Interestingly, I have been considering