[OpenAFS-devel] Cache corruption with RX busy code

[Matt W. Benjamin]

I guess that's right.  I don't think it helps consistency, but once the client marks its entry as potentially inconsistent, it won't be able to make use of an XCB update anyway.

Matt

----- "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman@your-file-system.com> wrote:

> On 4/18/2013 12:01 PM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> > 
> > On 18 Apr 2013, at 16:58, Matt W. Benjamin wrote:
> > 
> >> What is the scope of the proposed invalidation?
> > 
> > Clearing the Statd flag on all of the vnodes which the RPC might
> affect. So you have to do a FetchStatus to discover whether the RPC
> succeeded or not.
> > 
> > S.
> 
> And in a XCB world potentially issuing a GiveUpCallBack to notify the
> file server that you are no longer in sync.

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