[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

[Derrick Brashear]

Fileserver has no idea which client has it open(*), so... query who?

* Not as such. You could guess. There's no mechanism to query though.
And what if the client has gone offline now, but will come back
shortly? Or is at a new address?

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, John Hascall <john@iastate.edu> wrote:
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>  jaltman@secure-endpoints.com writes:
>
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> > In other words, the .__afsNNNN files are unnamed files that as far
>  > as the file server is concerned are still in use by some client.
>  > The reason the files are left behind is because the AFS cache manager
>  > that renamed the file did not delete it before it lost contact with
>  > the file server (network dropped, cache manager was stopped, machine
>  > crashed, ...).
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>  > Since the file server has no way of knowing if the file is still in
>  > use it can't delete it.
>
>    Why not?  Is there no way for the file server to query the
>    cache manager and ask?
>
>  John
>
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