[OpenAFS] Several OpenAFS issues

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:36:34 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> > were no problems with this setup, perhaps with the exception
> > of people browsing directories with limited rights (e.g., l only).
> > AFS for some reason really takes its time to communicate back
> > that file stats cannot be done (or returning all zeroes or NULLs
> > or some such thing).
> 
> I believe the slow stat stuff was eliminated with the 1.2.2 release, but
> I'm not 100% certain. Dunno if it was client only, or was both a client
> and server change.

Server-only. The server delayed "duplicate" error responses for 3 seconds,
but was overbroad in applying what "duplicate" was. This was a bug we
acquired from IBM.

-D