[2042] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: RS6000 AFS Fileserver Disasters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Fiorese)
Mon Sep 27 16:12:08 1993
From: <fiorese@vnet.ibm.com> (Pete Fiorese)
To: rick@msc.cornell.edu
Cc: fiorese@vnet.ibm.com (Pete Fiorese), info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 27 Sep 93 12:07:27 D.)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 13:35:37 -0500
>>
>> Was the failure mode the same as mine?
>>
>> salvager spins filling up /usr with c. 20 errors for each block on
>> the partition.
>>
>> When you kill salvager, AFS comes up with all non-{backup,readonly}
>> volumes on the roached partition GONE.
Oops, we're on the 'not an AIX3 filesystem' problem, where the machine
just reboots, and the partition is gone...
>> Transarc has come up with a bug in salvager which gets tickled by full
>> (or perhaps, almost full) size partitions. If they don't get around to
>> posting a notice today, I will post one myself.
All of out problems have come with 50%<part<80%. I think they've made
some modifications for the full partition by setting a watermark in 3.2b.
>> I find them remarkably non-forthcoming sometimes.
I'm getting close to feeling the same way...
Pete Fiorese fiorese@earth.fishkill.ibm.com
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