[OpenAFS] vos release

[Dan Pritts]

I can confirm this behavior.

I've used AFS with file servers in different sites, hundreds of
miles away.

Normally everything went just groovy, but occasionally when the WAN
links flaked (thanks NYNEX) we would see terrible performance problems
when doing a vos relase.  

If you didn't know what was happening (say, because the vos release
was part of your useradd script, and it just seemingly hung there
forever), or just because you were impatient,  and you hit control-c,
the vos release process would die and the volume would be locked, and
the replica at the remote site would be hosed.

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:02:31AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Klaas Hagemann" <kerberos@northsailor.de> writes:
> 
> > - is afs testing automatically, if these dead file servers are online again
> >   and syncs the replikas automiatically? or do i have to try it again and
> >   again?
> 
> I do not believe that AFS will retry.  I think you have to unlock and
> re-release yourself.
> 
> > - so will the lock in the vldb be released automatically?
> 
> I do not believe so.  I think you have to unlock manually.
> 
> AFS was not designed for a _widely_ distributed Cell (where widely
> distributed means thin pipes between the servers).  It was meant for
> one site of an Enterprise network, not a Wide Area Network.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Klaas
> 
> -derek
> 
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