[OpenAFS-devel] Working around cache problems?

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

In message <42385C20.3090304@umich.edu>,Terry Gliedt writes:
>   Kernel:    2.4.27
>   OpenAFS:   1.3.73
>   OpenMosix: patch-2.4.27-om-20041102

could you try 1.3.79?  i know of atleast two "problems" with deleting and
renaming of files in the linux specific code that are hopefully fixed.
the flush old afs inodes code has also been "improved".

further, i would suggest an SMP kernel just to make sure locking
is doing its job.

>Flushing a particular file had no effect (the same error as shown above 
>appears). Flushvolume took a long time, but when it eventually 
>completed, the ls -la behaved exactly as one would expect.

good.