[OpenAFS] Anyone experienced these probs with 1.4 ?

[Frank Burkhardt]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 04:19:01PM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Lars Schimmer wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Today I had a strange problem.
> > 1.4 server, 1.4 clients on win and linux.
> > A user could went down a path to a directory and there were just 0 byte
> > files in it.
> 
> a directory listing with 0 byte files is a side-effect of not being able
> to obtain stat data either because the user does not have appropriate
> tokens or because all servers registered for that volume are marked as
> being down.  Use the "tokens" and "fs checkservers" commands on the

I was curious and tried to reproduce this situation. I found a strange
(-> inconsistent) bahoviour of the (linux-)openafs-client.

This is what I did:

 afs-admin@host-1> mkdir test;cd test;fs sa -clear joe .;echo test > test
 
 joe@host-2> cd test;ls -la
 total 12
 drwxrwxr-x  2 daemon root   2048 2005-12-20 11:00 "."/
 drwxr-xr-x 97 root   users 10240 2005-12-20 10:57 ".."/
 ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?                ? "test"

And here is what I didn't expect:

 joe@host-1> cd test;ls -la
 total 15
 drwxrwxr-x    2 daemon   root         2048 Dec 20 11:00 "."/
 drwxr-xr-x   97 root     users       10240 Dec 20 10:57 ".."/
 -rw-r--r--    1 daemon   root            5 Dec 20 10:52 "test"
 
My guess: The openafs-client doesn't seem to enforce the r-permission
correctly when the stat-data of the examined file is cached.

Is this wrong, wanted or unavoidable behaviour?

Regards,

Frank