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

[Derek Atkins]

Note that the cache has never been tested on anything other than ext2.
The XFS caching may be interfering with the cache code.

-derek

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

> 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
> > > 
> > > |-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------|
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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