[OpenAFS] Strange backup volume behavior

2010-05-20 Thread Rick Cochran
I'm having trouble understanding the following. -Rick arctura vos remove -id rcc2.backup Volume 536870926 on partition /vicepb server avoca01.serverfarm.cornell.edu deleted arctura fs rmm /afs/afsdemo.cit.cornell.edu/users/jim1/Yesterday arctura vos backup rcc2 Created backup volume for rcc2

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange backup volume behavior

2010-05-20 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On May 20, 2010, at 17:36 , Rick Cochran wrote: I'm having trouble understanding the following. (elided) I've seen that when Linux gets its dcache confuzzled; flushing the dcache in various ways --- or, sometimes, the path, but I think that's actually triggering the garbage dcache entries

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange backup volume behavior

2010-05-20 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 20 May 2010, at 22:36, Rick Cochran wrote: I'm having trouble understanding the following. Does 'fs checkvolumes' solve the problem? If so, my suspicion is that there's a caching problem somewhere, where the client is caching the ID of the backup volume, and not invalidating that cache

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange backup volume behavior

2010-05-20 Thread Rick Cochran
Hello, John of printing fame! After rehabilitating my typing fingers, as Andrew Deason suggests, I get the following: samuel ls /afs/.afsdemo.cit.cornell.edu/users/rcc2 afs Private Yesterday samuel ls /afs/.afsdemo.cit.cornell.edu/users/rcc2/Yesterday ls: cannot access

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange backup volume behavior

2010-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 5/20/2010 11:25 PM, Rick Cochran wrote: What I did previous to losing track of this backup volume was to move volume rcc2 from one server to another. Should that cause this kind of behavior? -Rick This is not the desired behavior. Please file a bug report to openafs-b...@openafs.org so