[OpenAFS] E212: Can't open file for writing

[Kevin Scott Sumner]

This is similar to a problem we have seen in Linux 2.6 and 1.4.2.  On one 
host, I vi a script, and on another host I try to run it, and it gives me a 
File Not Found, and an ls -l shows the ? like you're getting...

I think this was discussed here [1] and is (or might be) fixed in 1.4.5.

[1] http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-September/027355.html

If this isn't akin to your problem, we may need more details...

Cheers,
Kevin
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ron Croonenberg wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I tried to copy 2 files onto an afs volume, but that didn't work too well for 
> some reason. (I never had this problem before.)
>
> projection_3a.tif" E212: Can't open file for writing
>
> ls -al shows:
>
> ?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? projection_3a.tif
> ?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? projection_3.tif
>
> Anyway, I tried to remove etc. the fiels but that doesn't go anywhere.
> Basically most things say the files are not there, but with ls I see them 
> show up.
>
>
>
> any ideas ?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
> Jason Edgecombe wrote:
>> Hartmut Reuter wrote:
>>> Namei has another advantage: if you salvage a single volume it's not
>>> necessary to read all inodes, but only those pseudo-inodes (file names)
>>> under the subdirectory belonging to the volume group. This is much
>>> faster.
>>> 
>>> An overhead traversing the AFSIDat-tree to open a file certainly
>>> exists, but I suppose it is neglectible compared to the advantages.
>>> 
>> 
>> Does the inode server slow down as the partition size grows? Am I going
>> to see a noticable slowdown on the inode server on a 250GB or 500GB
>> partition?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
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