[OpenAFS] You ever seen clients POUND a tiny RO replicated volume?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:10:36 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Yes, I've seen stuff like that before.  I've usually ended up tracking it
> down to either a well-intentioned student script that is doing some while
> (1) equivalent in conjunction with file access, often on multiple
> machines, or a piece of badly written vendor software (yes, I know that's
> redundant) that doesn't understand the concept of permission denied and
> goes into a tight loop constantly retrying whatever disk write it was
> trying to do.

curiosity, what client versions, and can you fstrace on them?