[OpenAFS] 1.3.77 Brokenness

Jack Neely jjneely@pams.ncsu.edu
Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:29:47 -0500


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:05:16AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:43:09PM -0500, Jack Neely wrote:
> > I keep RHEL/FC install trees in AFS which are served out via HTTP.  I
> > build the tree on a test machine and use rsync to move it out to AFS
> > land.  In this case my server is a RHEL3 linux box running OpenAFS
> > 1.2.11.  After moving the tree with rsync (a little over 2G worth) I
> > see that the cache gets out of sync on large files (20MB, 70MB, etc.)
> > Rsync complains it cannot delete its dot-files (the file it creates
> > before moving it to the real filename).  These . files show in an 'ls'
> > and when I try to rm them I get "No file or directory" yet they still
> > appear in AFS.  Many of my RPM pacakges are corrupt as well.
> 
> This is *exactly* the problem I've seen. It's reported at
> <http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=16965>.
> 

Indeed.

This is going to be a showstopper for us.

Jack

> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> 

-- 
Jack Neely <slack@quackmaster.net>
Realm Linux Administration and Development
PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4  EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89