[Info-vax] inconsistent information about HBVS status

[Ken Fairfield]

On Feb 1, 2:13 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> I had a DEC 3000 in my cluster freeze up today (if all goes well, I will
> have moved from 2 VAXen and 1 old ALPHA to 3 newer ALPHAs by this time
> next week), I don't know why.  It froze.  I had to do CTRL-P to get to
> the console.  Everything left OK.  BOOT hung soon after it rejoined the
> cluster.  Back to the console, TEST, and then it booted normally.  Maybe
> it's just getting old.
>
> Anyway, as a result of this, some merges and copies started.  I used my
> DCL procedure (see below) to check the status, and was surprised that
> SHOW DEVICE shows
>
> Device                  Device           Error    Volume         Free  Trans Mnt
>  Name                   Status           Count     Label        Blocks Count Cnt
>
> DSA520:                 Mounted              0  SOFT            514653     2   3
> $22$DKA200:   (DANEEL)  ShadowSetMember      0  (member of DSA520:)
>                                                 (copy trgt DSA520:   0% copied)
>
> while SHOW SHADOW shows
>
>    _DSA520:  Volume Label: SOFT
>      Device $22$DKA200             Master Member
>      Device $33$DKB0               Copy Target (1%)
[...]

Two things:

I do recall that SHOW SHADOW and SHOW DEVICE  will
give different values for % copied or %merged.  I figure it's
just different code for the two utilities.

The other point is, if you*really* want to know if a copy or
merge has started (or completed), look in the operator.log
for the messages from the shadow server.  I don't have a
system I can check at the moment, so I can't give the
exact facility used in the OPCOM message, but they're
obvious if you look. :-)

   -Ken