[OpenAFS] HELP! We 've lost our sync site

Rodney M Dyer rmdyer@uncc.edu
Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:39:44 -0500


At 03:01 PM 1/10/2004, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

>Backing out will not help you.  This problem has been present at least 
>since AFS 3.1, which is the oldest source I have handy to look at.  The 
>problem is not that you picked up a bug in a newer version; the broken 
>behaviour simply doesn't happen before 10-Jan-2004 13:38:03 UTC.

I would love to know the original reasoning for this one.  What were they 
saving those last bits for?  So lets see, anyone we can blame by 
name?  Ha!  Who would have thought that there would be a Y2K'ish rollover 
issue in AFS.

Never a dull IT moment.  ;)

Rodney

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