[OpenAFS] Odd ubik (?) synchronization problem
Ken Hornstein
kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:25:46 -0400
>The basic problem is if you have a series of writes happening
>at the same as you have a heavy load of reads, the writes and
>resulting replication interfer with the voting logic. There
>are various timing windows and timeouts that are issues at
>various points in the logic. There were a lot of these in afs 3.4;
>I don't how how many remain in openafs today, but it sure
>sounds like you ran into one of them.
I know this wasn't Russ's problem, but wouldn't having a tvlserver
solve this problem?
--Ken