[OpenAFS] AFS oddities

[Blake Atkins]

I'm having strange things happen with AFS now.

Previously, I was running OpenAFS 1.1.1a on several redhat 7.1 machines with 
a vanilla 2.4.6 + xfs patches. Everything worked perfectly.

I added a few machines with 2.4.9 + xfs kernels and newer versions of OpenAFS 
with no problems. I think the latest version of OpenAFS I was using was 
1.2.1. Still no problems.

Now, I'm using a RH 7.2 server with vanilla 2.4.9 + xfs as one file/db 
server, a RH 7.1 server with 2.4.9 + xfs as a file/db server, and several 
clients using 7.1 + 2.4.9+xfs . They're all using OpenAFS 1.2.2 and I'm 
having strange things happen. They all start up OK and run for an indefinite 
period of time (usually 2-8 hours). After awhile, sometimes /afs will appear 
as a file with strange ownership/permissions.  Sometimes directories under 
/afs will show up as the contents of a file or as total garbage. I noticed on 
one client that when files or directores were added by another, it couldn't 
see the changes but if it added files, itself as well as the others, could 
see the new stuff.

I'd be happy to provide any more information to anyone whom requests it.

Thanks much,

--Blake