[OpenAFS] Systems switching to read/write

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:48:17 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

> We have a large cluster of Unix systems running Solaris 8, and
> periodically a large chunk of those systems (but not all of them) suddenly
> decide that root.cell isn't replicated and decide that
> /afs/ir.stanford.edu is root.cell and not root.cell.readonly.  Running:
>
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> afsd is using the options:
>
> -dynroot -afsdb -nosettime -stat 2000 -dcache 800 -daemons 3 -volumes 70
>
> Could this be some sort of bug in the -dynroot support?  We only recently
> switched to using -dynroot everywhere.

Offhand, I'd guess yes, but really it could be something more subtle. I've
never seen it, and none of my (Solaris 8) systems use dynroot at this
time.