[OpenAFS] bogus file dates

Gregg Tracton tracton@med.unc.edu
Thu, 06 May 2004 11:59:02 -0400


This is a real show stopper: a reason for us to move from AFS to another 
less-featured shared disk solution.

We see files written into our afs space with bogus date timestamps, 
originating from windows, linux, and solaris clients. The timestamps 
display, depending on the client viewing the timestamp, as either 
December 31, 1969 or a day in 2033. It does not matter which of our 2 
afs file servers contains the volume. The problem is rare (once daily) 
and not reproducible.

--> Can anyone give clues as to where to start looking?

This really messes up incremental backup and other programs that depend 
on dates being correct. I've been doing Level 0 backups but our disk 
usage will shortly exceed our tape capacity so I need to move to 
incremental backups or drop AFS all together.

Thanks!
-g

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Gregg Tracton, UNC-CH Radiation Oncology