[2036] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: lost AFS partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Niksch)
Fri Sep 24 17:03:10 1993
From: <nik@zurich.ibm.com> (Michael Niksch)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 19:03:34 +0200
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Kathleen_Rizzuti@transarc.com
On Sep 24, 10:28, Kathleen_Rizzuti@transarc.com wrote:
> There is a known AIX problem that could cause a server to lose a
> partition.
>-- End of excerpt from Kathleen_Rizzuti@transarc.com
None of the suggested fixes ever helped. The problem eventually
disappeared when we reinstalled the machine with AIX 3.2.4. There was a
rumour from IBM Austin saying that the cause could be a corrupted log
device for a volume group. In fact, our machine had been reporting
errors with the configuration of its rootvg since we had replaced a disk
in the rootvg. If this was in fact the cause, it would mean that a
corrupted log device of one volume group could cause loss of an AFS
partition on a different volume group. I would highly recommend to
install AIX 3.2.4.
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