[OpenAFS] CopyOnWrite failed

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 matt@njit.edu wrote:

> Questions:
> 
> Is this the CoW problem that still exists in later versions?

Unclear. The ReallyReads may be a bug fixed in 1.2.5 and thus may be
showing a CoW problem which isn't the same.

> I have read that backup clones are related in some way to the CoW. 
> Should i switch to periodically released r/o volumes instead? (ie:
> explicitly mounted r/w home dirs etc...)?

ROs are clones just like the backup volumes so this won't help.

> All my other OpenAFS cells are on more recent OpenAFS versions on
> Solaris8, These cells are safe from the CoW, correct?

That we know of there is no CoW on Solaris (with the inode fileserver) 

-D