primrec(8t) — AIX PS/2 1.2.1



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primrec



PURPOSE

A user-level replication reconciliation procedure.

SYNTAX


                 +------+
/etc/primrec ----|+----+|---- gfs --- targetnumber --- hostnumber ---|
                 +| -f |+
                  | -v |
                  +----+


DESCRIPTION

primrec is the utility that performs the user-level propagation of replicated
file systems.  gfs is the global file system number of the file system to be
propagated.  Since pack numbers and site numbers are by convention identical,
targetnumber is is the pack number of the target pack.  For the same reason,
hostnumber identifies the site which will be the source of the updated
versions.  The host site must have either a primary or backbone copy of the
replicated file system or primrec will fail.  In general this will be the
current synchronization site (CSS) of the file system in the current partition.
primrec uses /etc/comlist to determine what files need propagation to bring the
local system up to date.  Because primrec issues spropin system calls to cause
the actual propagation, primrec MUST be executed on the target site.

This is not intended to be used by anyone other than the system administrator.

FLAG

-f      Compare all files in file system.  Used when the non-primary's
        low-water mark has questionable accuracy.

-v      Verbose option.  The system displays information on the propagation
        status of each file.

If the -v option is not provided, a series of dots are written to stdout
instead.  Each dot corresponds to 20 files being considered, and each line
corresponds to 1000 files (50 dots).

With or without the -v option, errors that occur while propagating a file (for
example, out-of-space or site-down conditions) cause an error message to be
written to stderr, and no message or dot is written to stdout.





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RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "recmstr" and "comlist."

See the spropin and chlwm system calls in AIX Technical Reference.


















































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