[OpenAFS] another problem with vos release

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:30:27 PM +0200 Hans-Gunther Borrmann 
<hans-gunther.borrmann@rz.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 16:48, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> >    RWrite: 536871953
>> >    number of sites -> 2
>> >       server leda partition /vicepa RW Site  -- New release -- Old
>> > release server atlas.cg.cs.tu-bs.de partition /vicepb RO Site  -- Old
>> > release -- Old release
>>
>> I couldn't help noticing that you don't have a RO volume on the same
>> machine as the RW copy.
>>
>> This once happened to us here on one volume (don't ask; someone here
>> INSISTED that it didn't cause any problems).  I noticed "weird"
>> behavior during vos releases.  I can't quantify "weird" anymore than
>> that; it was strange and it was a while ago, and I pestered people
>> until it had a RO on the same machine as the RW copy, and the weirdness
>> went away.  I could easily believe that not having a RO copy on the
>> same machine as the RW copy would be a corner case that isn't tested
>> that much, and maybe it would be worth putting one there just to see if
>> it solves some of your problems.
>>
>
> What I noticed in this situation  was , that "vos release" of a "large"
> volume  took an incredible long time. "large" in this case meant ~100000
> Files.  Having an ro on the same server reduced the time to a normal
> value.  --


Yes, that's going to be true.  If you don't have an RO site in the same 
place as the RW, then it needs to create a temporary release clone for each 
release.  Doing that takes as long as creating the local RO site for a full 
release, which is basically linear in the total number of vnodes in the 
volume.  If there is a permanent local RO site, then it requires only an 
incremental update, which is still linear in the number of vnodes, but with 
a much smaller constant.

-- Jeff