[OpenAFS-devel] Same problem in a different place.

[Neulinger, Nathan]

> > If my application which is write()ing a large block of data=20
> ever gets stuck=20
> > in afs_osi_Sleep() then there is _absolutely_no_way_ that a=20
> signal will ever=20
> > get me out.  I have to wait until something else interrupts=20
> the sleep.  How=20
> > long do I have to wait?
>=20
> Perhaps it is a little strange, but AFS has always been a=20
> real bear when
> it gets stuck on a down server.  Hitting ^C does no good at all; you
> just have to wait for the client to decide the server is down.

This is probably the only major issue we have with AFS... In some cases, =
it seems like the client never gives up.

How hard would it be to get the client daemon to be a little more =
impatient? i.e. more prone to switch servers in the case of replicated =
volumes?

-- Nathan

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