[OpenAFS] accessing volumes with missing replicas hangs eternally.

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Matthew Andrews wrote:

> on a redhat 7.0 machine running openAFS 1.0.3, however trying to access
> files on the missing volume simply hang forever.

don't run anything pre-1.0.4.

> for the afs3.4a case, the client thus became happy when I simply removed
> the old replicas and created new ones on the new fileserver. the openafs
> client required a reboot befor it could access the affected volumes.
> 
> 
> is this the expected behavior? if so, why? The ibm behavior seems to
> provide for more gracefull recovery of the client.

it's not expected, hence why it was fixed in 1.0.4

-D