On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dwight Cook wrote:

//      Its probably just me but...
//
//      Anyone else notice that if you rename a client node, then later want
//      to delete its file spaces (so you can remove the node) that the delete
//      file space process will run for about 1 second, then ADSM crashes !
//
//      Back when we were running into the "couldn't insert row into archive
//      description table" during a client archive, which was due to the
//      client having used the GUI... my quick fix was to rename the client
//      node (added an "o" to the end of its name) then redefine the client
//      and have them perform their archive again.  Well now I have renamed
//      nodes, whose original node name no longer exists on the adsm server
//      and it still crashes the adsm server code while trying to delete its
//      file space.  It does it for both "del filespace nodename
//      somefilespace" and also for "del filespace nodename *" (at least it is
//      consistant ;-) )
//
//      anyway... just a note
//
//      Dwight

What version of the server are you running?
I have deleted the file spaces of renamed nodes w/o a problem many times
on 3.1.2.20, AIX 4.2.1.4.


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Best regards,
Best regards,
Brian

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