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[daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : Re: parallel salvages and multi-partition disks]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 1 21:20:01 1996
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 21:19:42 -0500
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
Food for thought...
Jonathon
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[4620] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hascall) Info-AFS_Redistribution 02/28/96 23:04 (37 lines)
Subject: Re: parallel salvages and multi-partition disks
To: info-afs@transarc.com
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Date: 29 Feb 1996 02:51:08 GMT
Rick Cochran <rick@msc.cornell.edu> wrote:
}The current behavior of salvage is to parallel up to four salvage
}operations. This is nice except that there is no way to tell it how
}to avoid salvaging multiple partitions on the same disk
}simultaneously, which is a Bad Thing (tm).
}
}I found someone at Transarc who understood this and entered defect
}#7307 on my problem TR-19712. If anyone else feels strongly about the
}desirability of a fix for this, please feel free to contact Transarc
}yourself.
Indeed, the info they need is right there in the fstab and
vfsck surely already has routines that know how to read it.
A partial workaround is to order your /vicepX names to avoid it
as much as possible:
Better Worse
/vicepa rz0a /vicepa rz0a
/vicepb rz1a /vicepb rz0b
/vicepc rz2a /vicepc rz1a
/vicepd rz3a /vicepd rz1b
/vicepe rz0b /vicepe rz2b
/vicepf rz1b /vicepf rz2b
/vicepg rz2b /vicepg rz31
/viceph rz3b /viceph rz3b
John
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