[OpenAFS-devel] Cache consistency issues on Linux

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Alf Wachsmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> we are experiencing some cache consistency problems on Linux running
> IBM/Transarc's GA release of AFS 3.6. Transarc's recommendation is to
> upgrade to afs36p02 where this problem (among others) is fixed.
> 
> Since GA release of AFS 3.6 is the release OpenAFS is based on, we are
> wondering about a fix for these "serious cache consistency issues on
> Linux" (Jared Spencer, jareds@us.ibm.com) in OpenAFS.

Without knowing the details of this I can't really answer it. We do have
some Linux-specific fixes which are specifically relevant to dentry
caching.

-D