[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS bug, Cache gets full and is not flushed (fwd)

[Patrick Sodre Carlos]

This does not make sense since I was able to copy the same file
before(openafs 1.1.4). But Now that I've upgraded to kernel 2.4.8 I
"have" to use openafs 1.2.0.

Hoping for other ideas,
Patrick Sodre Carlos

 On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Shyh-Wei Luan wrote:

> 
> I believe you need to have your client machine's cache partition size as
> large as the largest file that you are "writing" into the AFS space through
> this machine.   AFS client does "write on close" and all the file data
> stays in the client cache until the file is closed or when fsync is called.
> 
> Shyh-Wei Luan
> 
> Patrick Sodre Carlos <sodre@wam.umd.edu>@openafs.org on 09/14/2001 10:10:18
> AM
> 
> Sent by:    openafs-devel-admin@openafs.org
> 
> 
> To:    openafs-info@openafs.org, openafs-devel@openafs.org
> cc:
> Subject:    [OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS bug, Cache gets full and is not
>        flushed (fwd)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> The file I was trying to copy was the size of a CD, 640MB I suppose.
> 
> Patrick Sodre
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 14 Sep 2001 09:06:17 -0400
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> To: Patrick Sodre Carlos <sodre@wam.umd.edu>
> Subject: Re: OpenAFS bug, Cache gets full and is not flushed
> 
> Oh, you should DEFINITELY be sending this to openafs-info or
> openafs-devel (@openafs.org).  I don't know why you decided to send
> this directly to me.
> 
> How big is this file that you're trying to copy?
> 
> -derek
> 
> Patrick Sodre Carlos <sodre@wam.umd.edu> writes:
> 
> > Due to the above, the cell stops working and any progress after to finish
> > copying the files after that is "halted".
> >
> > Data of my system:
> >  - Kernel 2.4.8 (SMP 2CPUS)
> >  - OpenAFS 1.2.0
> >
> > How did this bug happens:
> >  - Set the cache to live in a separate partition of 200 Megabytes
> >  - Get a big file to copy to AFS (Mandrake.iso)
> >  - Copy the Mandrake.iso file to the /afs/.cellname/somevolume
> >
> > Expected:
> >  - For the whole file to be copied since there was "plenty" of space
> > available in the volume.
> >
> > Result:
> >  - The "cp"/"rsync"/"ftp" halts as soon as the cache is filled
> > (180Mega) and I can't get control of the system or "kill -9", thefore a
> > reboot it necessary.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Patrick Sodre
> > PS: Tell me if I should be sending this message somewhereelse
> >
> >
> 
> --
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