Coda File System

Re: repair issue

From: Patrick Walsh <pwalsh_at_esoft.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:32:59 -0700
	Jan, thank you.  cfs purgeml fixed the problem.  I've added this error
and your response to the wiki.

..Patrick


On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:12 -0500, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:56:58AM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote:
> > 	By and large our system is working great and we see few conflicts.
> > Today, however, we got one and I am not sure how to fix it.
> > 
> > 	If I use the repair tool, I get this:
> > 
> > repair > beginrepair passwd_manage
> > Too few directory entries
> > Could not allocate replica list
> > beginrepair failed.
> > 
> > 	If I use cfs beginrepair, the "global" file is a broken link.  And
> > really, what can you do besides examine the conflict after you've used
> > cfs to begin a repair?
> 
> It is a combination of a server-server (resolution) conflict and a
> local-global (reintegration) conflict.
> 
> The reintegration probably failed because of the server-server conflict.
> This is a problematic case because both types of conflicts are handled
> very differently and the client can't fix the underlying server-server
> conflict because it is 'hidden' by the reintegration.
> 
> Right now the options are, fix the server-server conflict from another
> client which may then allow reintegration to succeed, or purge the cml
> to get rid of the local-global conflict, and repair the remaining
> server-server from this client.
> 
> > 	I can't rm it and don't know how to replace it or get rid of it.  Any
> > suggestions?
>     
> cfs purgeml should get rid of the local-global (reintegration) conflict.
> 
> At this point you would only have the server-server conflict left, if
> this is a file it can be completely removed with
>     removeinc passwd_manage
> 
> or repaired with,
>     cfs beginrepair passwd_manage
>     cp passwd_manage/some_replica /tmp/passwd_manage.recovered
>     cfs endrepair passwd_manage
>     filerepair passwd_manage /tmp/passwd_manage.recovered
> 
> Jan
-- 
Patrick Walsh
eSoft Incorporated
303.444.1600 x3350
http://www.esoft.com/

Received on 2005-12-02 16:34:56
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