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

[John Bleichert]

Martin and Derek,

I am indeed running XFS as the underlying FS for my cache - when I get 
home tonight (or perhaps tomorrow night) I will mount the cache on an ext2 
partition and advise as to whether this helps.

Thanks for your replies - JB

PS: Note, Ive been running my cache on an XFS partition since I think 
2.4.7 and this only just began to happen.

On 3 Apr 2002, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Date: 03 Apr 2002 10:21:18 -0500
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] directory corruption with Linux 2.4.[16|17]
> 
> 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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