[OpenAFS-devel] Apple Xserve ....

[Valerio Luccio]

Still having lots of problems getting the AFS server to work on an Apple 
Xserve.

More often than not, when I modify a file created on a volume (for 
example if I try to delete it) mounted under root.cell, the volume and 
the root.cell volume get corrupted (I get an "Cannot attach volume" when 
I do an "vos listvol"). I've restarted the fileserver process with the 
maximum debugs turned on and I notice the following lines in the FileLog:

    SAFS_RemoveFile <filename>, Did=<number>, Host <IP address>, Id 1
    DT: inode=202, name=<filename>, errno=17

I tracked the "DT:" line to the DeleteTarget function in 
"afsfileprocs.c" right after the calls to IH_DEC and IH_RELEASE. The 
error seems to be set by by IH_DEC.

If I read the source correctly, for Darwin this corresponds to a call to 
"idec" (in afssyscalls.c"), which is actually a call to "syscall" with 
the first parameter set to "71+1000". Am I correct so far ? If I am, 
then I'm lost at this point. The only "syscall" source code I see is 
assembler code which would seem to be defined only for AIX, SGI and for 
something defined as "__hp9000s800" (whatever that is).

Does anyone have any idea ?

Thanks.

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