Me again.
When last we met I had a question about ndmpcopy - the copy went over well - files moved, the application that needs those files had a brief outage and all is well.
I'm cleaning up the source volume - 'best practice' here is to remove files, remove snapshots and shrink the volume to 10g should we need a place to stash files.
Removed the files, done. Removed the snapshots, done.
Except for one guy that is being stubborn. The fellow with just a bit more experience with these than I do claims it must be because a server is still has that volume mounted and if I showmount that appears to be the case .. except the remote host in question no longer has that mounted - going by 'df -k' and /etc/vfstab.
Now - a very long time ago - back in November of 06 - this volume was cloned and mounted so that an application under development could see the contents of the file store there.
Is there something special - clearly there might be - about clones and mirrors that require an extra effort to delete a snapshot? Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong?
I would not ordinarily go the newb well twice in a fortnight but I've been looking at this since early this morning and I'm no closer to figuring out WHY than when I started.
Thanks.
HOST:/:# rsh co-dsk-007 snap list aprod4 Volume aprod4 working...
%/used %/total date name ---------- ---------- ------------ -------- 28% (28%) 0% ( 0%) Nov 16 15:30 clone_aprod4_cln_aglif.1 (busy,vclone)
"Busy? Surely the OS isn't going to let me blow away something that is marked as busy .."
HOST:/:# rsh co-dsk-007 snap delete aprod4 clone_aprod4_cln_aglif.1 Snapshot clone_aprod4_cln_aglif.1 is busy because of
"How bout that. What about the nfs mounts?"
LOCALHOST:/sbin:showmount -a co-dsk-007 | grep aprod4 206.209.246.192:/vol/aprod4 co-ap-103v.plexus.com:/vol/aprod4 co-ap-930v.plexus.com:/vol/aprod4_cln_aglifs
"Both hosts have been vi /etc/vfstab 'd and umounted and even rebooted to death at this point .."
Brian Dunbar Systems Administrator II Plexus
brian.dunbar@plexus.com Desk: (920) 751-3364 Cell: (920) 716-2027