[OpenAFS] directory corruption with Linux 2.4.[16|17]

[Derek Atkins]

Is your cache partition filled up?

What is the underlying FS for your cache?

What happens if you shutdown AFS, rm /usr/vice/cache/*Items, and startup AFS?
Does the problem go away (temporarily)?

-derek

John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> writes:

> Hello All
> 
> I've bumped 2 boxes on my LAN up to kernels 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 and 
> occasionally, after being logged in for a while, a working directory can 
> become corrupted. If I do an 'ls' in that directory, I get a bunch of 
> binary gibberish in the listing and can't make any sense out of the 
> directory contents. 
> 
> I think it's just my client cache getting corrupted - if I log into 
> another AFS client and check that same directory its contents are fine. 
> Also, this may happen randomly in any directory. Logging out and then back 
> in doesnt seem to clear it up and unloading/loading the AFS client doesn't 
> *always* clean it up.
> 
> Is anybody else seeing this? I'm also running XFS (from SGI) - I've been 
> running it for over a year now but this problem only popped up as of 
> kernel 2.4.16.
> 
> Anybody else seeing this? It's really annoying :-(
> 
> Thanks - JB
> 
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