[Box Backup] RaidFileDoesntExist (2/11)

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:00:49 +0100 (BST)


Hi Dave,

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Dave Bamford wrote:

>> >  Foot in mouth, I had the store mounted as readonly on error. So when I 
>> >  had problems with one of the drives it remounted the filesystem 
>> >  readonly. I have since found that the drives only work reliably if they 
>> >  are set to 150Mb/s transfer rate. Although the controller and the drives 
>> >  should support 300mb/s.
>> > 
>> >  So the only comment I have is that the error message should maybe be 
>> >  more informative.
>>
>>  Is it the RaidFileDoesntExist error that you're saying should be more
>>  informative? From bbstored or bbstoreaccounts?
>
> Yes its all fixed now. Initially the error message implied to me that 
> raidfile.conf did not exist. perhaps the file that is being sought 
> should be displayed in the message. I would probably have worked out 
> what was wrong much quicker.

OK, I've added a description to that exception:

"Error when accessing a file on the store. Check the store with 
bbstoreaccounts check."

That message should be displayed whenever the exception is thrown. Would 
that have been enough to point you in the right direction?

Cheers, Chris.
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