[OpenAFS-devel] 1.2.9 bug in Solaris 9

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, May 05, 2003 9:45 AM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:

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

I spoke too soon... I see this consistently with a variety of symlinks all 
over AFS space in 1.2.9.

--Quanah

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Stanford University
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