[OpenAFS-devel] 1.2.9 bug in Solaris 9

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Saturday, May 03, 2003 1:40 PM -0400 "Tim C." <tim@umbc.edu> wrote:

>> I've seen no comment or follow up with the ls -l bug I'm seeing in
>> Solaris 9.  Has anyone else seen this?  Any 'ls -l' operation I perform
>> while in AFS takes approximately 13 seconds to complete.  I can provide
>> a truss of the process if desired.
>>
>   Well I can't help with the problem.  But I'm running solaris 9 on my
> workstation, and installed openafs-1.2.9 client as soon as it came out,
> and I haven't had any of the problems you have mentioned.  Might want to
> try an ls -l in different volumes on different servers to see if you can
> track down a server that's responding slow.
>
> Tim

Tim,

In doing some more testing, I found it is specific to a particular symlink 
that hadn't been touched since 1999.  Deleting that symlink, recreating it, 
and then doing an ls -al on it got rid of the problem... bizarre.

--Quanah


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