Pile of Dross

pathtape server fell over at weekend – lots of stores piled up. Also some restores for not entirely understood reasons, my current thinking is that the file got written to a pool which tried to store it and hung (or it got stuck behind other stuck stores), the user access the file to see if its there, this causes another pool to try and supply the file – and tries to restore it from tape ( because it thinks it can, which hits some code in our restore script to cope with some backwards compatibilty and caused it to access the pathtape server which it wouldn’t do normally). But I’m sure dCache shouldn’t allow that, each file has a boolean to say whether its on tape or not which is not set until the tape operation is complete so it shouldn’t try and restore it I think.

Copied contents of dcache_1 to another dteam pool and shut it down – I want to use the /pool partition as /var/lib/pgsql/data when the great reorg takes place.

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