[OpenAFS] FAM and OpenAFS

[Christopher D. Clausen]

chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> In message <20060221103334.1d40c547@noether.tfy.utu.fi>,Juha
> =?ISO-8859-1?B?SuR 5a2vk?= writes:
>> like the Apple Finder -bug to me: both Finder and fam want to access
>> files they do not necessarily have access to...
> ...
>> Feb 21 09:34:58 planck famd[4177]: client 5 invalid request number
>> 618
>
> famd should be familiar with the idea that it cannot read a file.
> are you using a disk cache?  if so, try a memcache.

memcache doesn't help matters. (wrt to famd anyway.)

We disabled famd on our Debian workstations and almost all AFS related 
problems went away nearly immediately.

I have not had any users complain about missing features due to lack of 
famd support.  (Doesn't mean it didn't happen, just that no one told me 
about it.)

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Christopher D. Clausen
ACM@UIUC SysAdmin