[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:34:13 -0400


In message <47F51375.7090001@secure-endpoints.com>,Jeffrey Altman writes:
>What normal successfully completed operation is leaving unreferenced 
>.__afsNNNN files behind?
>
>Lets fix the bug.

good idea.  i dont know how you fix machines not under your control
running older (broken) clients.  and the primary cause for these files is
typically crashing of the host operating system while holding a deleted
file reference.  i doubt you can fix this with a patch.