[OpenAFS] Problem with openafs-1.3.79 on kernel 2.6.11

Mike Fedyk mfedyk@matchmail.com
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:50:48 -0800


Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:

>After some careful testing on various smaller machines, we decided
>to move one of our web servers to Openafs 1.3.79 with kernel 2.6.11;
>with the exception of the kernel, we are using a fairly standard
>Debian sarge system, with glibc 2.3.2.
>  
>
Why aren't you using 2.6.8-13 that is in sarge?

>In about three hours, and well before our normal daily peak stress,
>AFS became partially unusable.  Attempts to write produced a message
>that the quota was exhausted, which wasn't the case; I tried
>stopping AFS, but it wouldn't stop cleanly, claiming that the
>filesystem was still in use, even though no processes were running
>that could be using it.  My conclusion: 1.3.79 isn't quite up to
>production quality, regrettably.
>  
>
Exact error messages would be more helpful than a summary.