[OpenAFS] cache managers on openAFS clients NOT caching
Derrick J Brashear
shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:16:06 -0400 (EDT)
You seem to have done a lot off stuff entirely other than what he asked
you to do.
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Kristian wrote:
> At this point I closed firefox and stopped the cache manager... then
> started it up again leaving the cache untouched. Most surprisingly if I
> issue the same cmdebug command, all the callbacks are gone. If I
That's not shocking at all.
> remember correctly, the cache manager doesn't fetch files from the AFS
> server if the file's callback is still valid! If the callbacks aren't
> there upon restart, the cache manager is definitely doing the right
> thing,
Probably.
> which is fetching the files from the server.
No. If it already had the correct fid/uniquifier in the cache it shouldn't
refetch. It should restat the file, though. That's necessary to confirm
you still have the correct data.
On your server, get modern tcpdump.
tcpdump -s 1500 -vv host (clientname) and port 7001
the interesting thing is fetchdata. what do you see?
> 1) how can I extend the validity of a callback? I would actually
> like to configure my cell to serve read-only files with
> unlimited expiration time... callbacks should be broken
> by the server ONLY when changes are released.
Callbacks weren't broken by the server. You gave them back when you
stopped the cache manager. It's better than having a fileserver trying to
break callbacks to a client which isn't online. No, we won't "fix it",
because it's not broken.
> 2) is it possible to configure the cache managers to keep
> track of all the callbacks stored even after a restart?
See above.