SUMMARY: msfs messages

From: Paul Wood <pcwood_at_uniblab.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 96 8:30:40 EDT

My original message read:

Hello,
  The following messages have shown up on my kern syslog. I do not know
what msfs is. The man page for mount mentions mfs but doesnt explain
(Memory file system?). I dont know if mfs and msfs are related.
I'll post you suggestions in a summary. Thanks.

Jun 10 15:18:28 thunder vmunix: msfs_mount: bmtr_put_rec warning E_READ_ONLY
(-1114)
Jun 10 15:35:37 thunder vmunix: msfs_mount: bmtr_put_rec warning E_READ_ONLY
(-1114)
Jun 10 16:25:28 thunder vmunix: msfs_mount: bmtr_put_rec warning E_READ_ONLY
(-1114)
Jun 12 11:18:35 thunder vmunix: msfs_mount: bmtr_put_rec warning E_READ_ONLY
(-1114)
Jun 12 11:36:36 thunder vmunix: msfs_mount: bmtr_put_rec warning E_READ_ONLY
(-1114)

We are running OSF3.2 on an AlphaServer 2100 4/200.

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Sum: It seems the messages are showing up during our vdump backups of AdvFS
clone file systems.  The messages occur when a write is attempted to a read
only fsys.
Thanks very much to the following who responded:
Baranyai Pal <bp_at_vma.bme.hu>
Nick Hill - RAL CISD Systems Group <NMH1_at_axprl1.rl.ac.uk>
"E. Niederacher" <niederacher_at_fh-vorarlberg.ac.at>
Richard Rogers <ittrmr_at_staffs.ac.uk>
"Bernt Christandl" <beb_at_rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Hellebo Knut <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
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From: Baranyai Pal <bp_at_vma.bme.hu>
HellO!
msfs IS NOT memory filesystem. It is the advfs.
If you vdump your filedomain#filest by cloning, the system mounts it
read only. Compare the messages' dates and the vdumpdates.
Best wishes,
Pal Baranyai
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From: Nick Hill - RAL CISD Systems Group <NMH1_at_axprl1.rl.ac.uk>
msfs is Advfs. It was originally going to be called megasafe filesystem so 
there are alot of references to msfs inside DIGITAL UNIX.
Nick Hill
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From: "E. Niederacher" <niederacher_at_fh-vorarlberg.ac.at>
We receive these messages always during our backup scripts. We use advfs. For
backups we create a clone fs and then run vdump. More I can't say ;-)
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From: Richard Rogers <ittrmr_at_staffs.ac.uk>
I think msfs is AdvFS by another name (Mega Safe File System). Don't 
ask me why there are two names...I think you are right in thinking 
that mfs is Memory File System.
Richard
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From: "Bernt Christandl" <beb_at_rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
Paul,
'msfs' is the *real* (???) name for AdvFS or at least the product Dec
started with when making their AdvFS (or something like that).
At least internally, when diving deeper into AdvFS you only find msfs-
references (include-files, variable-names, object-files to be linked...)
To me you problem sounds, as if you should strongly consider to either
ask your Dec-support for as many AdvFS-Patches as they have or better
to upgrade to 3.2D which means a "very patched 3.2" (and some few other
things ;-)
We had many problems with AdvFS coming with the "pure" OS-version for
3.2 and 3.2C. But now that we have installed *lots* of patches for 3.2C
our machines run pretty stable (no crash or problem on 10 machines for
the last 100 days - except for a power-failure due to a thunderstorm
on our server...)
Hope this helps
Bernt Christandl
                                                                       
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From: "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
"msfs" is "Mega-Safe File System", the code name for "AdvFS".  Some day we
might manage to clean up all the messages..
Tom
 
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From: alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
	msfs is the Megasafe File System, which was the development
	name for the Advanced File System.  Are you trying to mount
	an AdvFS readonly or on a read-only device?  Beyond the
	obvious hint, I have no idea what the message means.
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From: Hellebo Knut <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
Regards,
Sounds like some AdvFS error. Is there somebody/something trying to write
to a readonly advfs partition ?
Thanks again.
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Received on Tue Jun 18 1996 - 15:09:03 NZST