Addendum: Got a Sick Feeling - AdVFS Error!

From: Wayne Sweatt <sweatt_at_dps.state.nm.us>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:23:52 -0600

i had a hunch and went back to check the crontab...
Sure enough - defragcron had been running.
I still haven't seen a tech. paper as to why this
is recommended by most to be commented out.
Could this have caused it.
We had no backup.
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Wayne Sweatt
Principal Software Analyst
Litton / PRC
505.827.9288
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Sweatt [SMTP:sweatt_at_dps.state.nm.us]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 11:07 AM
To: 'DU Mail List'
Subject: Got a Sick Feeling - AdVFS Error!

OO Boy...
I had shipped a DEC Alpha Personal Workstation loaded with 4.0D and Oracle8i and a lot of code across the country. It was working fine here. It was shutdown,halted fine. I got a call from the remote site saying they couldn't mount the filesystems that contain their data.
I dial in and notice that it's one of the AdVFS domains won't mount.
It is set up in /etc/fdmns OK, the disklabel looks OK.
When I run "showfdmn blah" I get:
# showfdmn blah showfdmn: can't show set info for domain 'blah' showfdmn: error = E_BAD_MAGIC (-1167)
I have a sick feeling that the data is lost.
What happened?
Anyone ever recovered from one of these scenarios?
Thanks,


***********************
Wayne Sweatt
Principal Software Analyst
Litton / PRC
505.827.9288
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Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 17:27:06 NZST

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