[OpenAFS] AFS cache

[Derek Atkins]

This is not quite accurate.  Writes to the server are not at
application completion, but at "file close".  If the application
close()es and re-open()s the file periodically, changes will be
flushed out to the servers and available to other clients.

-derek

"Matz Broman (QRA)" <Matz.Broman@era.ericsson.se> writes:

> Hi!
> I have a problem, one of my users must update the AFS file in realtime so he can access from all AFS computers. As I understand AFS write to the server on applicatiopn close. Until then all updates are done at the local clients cache only.
> So when he lokks at the file fron another client he can not see the updates done before the applications ends.
> 
> 
> My 2 questions is:
> Is it possible to configure the client to just use the cache for some volumes or vice versa?
> Is it possible to not use the cache at all, and make the client write tro the server everytime?
> 
> 
> 
> Matz Broman
> ETE
> matz.broman@era.ericsson.se
> 
> 
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