[OpenAFS-devel] openafs 1.4.1-rc1 drops volume callbacks

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:11:35 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:

> With openafs 1.4.1-rc1 callbacks for R/O replicas (I mean: callbacks provoked 
> by a 'vos release') don't seem to have any effect: tcpdump shows that there 
> is an RPC call but fstrace does not show anything, meaning they are left out 
> in the big loop in 'CallBack' in afs_callback.c (and of course the client 
> still sees the old directory).
>
> There are two deltas in afs_callback.c since 1.4.0 where it definitely still 
> works: STABLE14-macos104-20051005 & 
> STABLE14-vc-hashing-be-less-expensive-20050728.
>
> The latter one directly does something in that loop so I'd suspect it first - 
> alas simply rolling it back did not work because of other deltas in 
> afs_vcache.c and afs_pioctl.c

The former probably broke the latter. Should be fixed in rc2.

Try it.

Derrick