[OpenAFS] Help: intermittent fileservice hangs

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:

> >> What causes it?  vos moves failing within a server are the same?
> >
> >The second question above fails to parse.
>
> The problem I have with vos moves failing is the same problem, the
> fileserver breaking callbacks?

Quite possibly.

> >The fileserver breaks callbacks inline when the volserver "gives back" a
> >volume after moving it. Depending what version you have either
> >1) the volserver times out connections including the vos client that
> >called in the "move" because the fileserver takes too long answering while
> >it's waiting for clients that went away to time out
> >2) the volservers get a quick reply from the fileserver, which then
> >becomes busy breaking callbacks and won't answer the volserver if it comes
> >back shortly thereafter for another request, with basically the same
> >result as above but on the next transaction
> >
> >It's been discussed. It's in the archives. The CVS head version was
> >reworked to deal differently.
>
> Not yet in a release yet, I can assume?

If you mean other than 1.3.5something, no.