[8218] in Athena Bugs
Re: vos release weird behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Mon Sep 16 20:53:24 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 20:51:13 EDT
From: sommerfeld@apollo.com (Bill Sommerfeld)
To: bug-afs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: eichin@apollo.com
In-Reply-To: [354] in AFS_bugs
The problem appears to be that the AFS file server process doesn't
deal very well with multiple copies of the same volume on a machine.
If you do a "vos listvol server-name", look for volumes listed as
Off-line; chances are that there are multiple replicas of that volume
on that machine. The fileserver seems to deal with this by picking
the "first" (in partition order).
This was compounded by the fact that "vos remsite" is inherently
dangerous -- it only touches the vldb without deleting the replication
site.
The situation was cleaned up when I did a "vos zap" on all replicas of
the offending read-only volume on ronald-ann, then re-released it.
I'd be inclined to file a bug report with Transarc with respect to
this behavior. Unless they decide to "fix" the system to allow for
multiple RO sites on a single host, .. (a) vos should warn if you try
to create multiple RO volumes on the same physical partition; (b) the
file server should shriek into the log when it sees the same volume
twice when coming up.
- Bill
