[OpenAFS] AFS oddities

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:21:05 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Blake Atkins wrote:

> Yes, the cache partition is the same type of filesystem: ext2 . I'll try a 
> xfs client cache next. I mistated when I said all of the clients are running 
> 2.4.9+xfs, most are just vanilla 2.4.9. Even on the boxes with xfs, ext2 is 
> still used for the cache. I tried the tcpdump earlier, however, by the time I 
> started it the problem had disappeared.

ext2 should be safe. I believe there is still a dentry problem but that
shouldn't cause the behavior you describe.

-D