[OpenAFS-devel] suggested feature...

David Thompson thomas@cs.wisc.edu
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:03:28 -0500


Derek Atkins wrote:
>This is never a problem if your cache is on its own partition and you
>tell the cache manager what size the partition is.  In fact, that
>is the recommended operating procedure.  What are you doing? ;)

Actually, this is only _almost_ true.  We run 100Meg caches in 120 Meg partitions on several hundred workstations and occassionally (several times a month?) see the "partition full -- decrease cachesize" message, with its accompanying cache corruption.

Dave