[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

[Robert Banz]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Robert Banz wrote:
>
>> That wouldn't work, because the file could have been open()'d by  
>> two different cache managers, unlinked by one, but should still be  
>> able to be written to.
>
> That doesn't work.  Eventually the cache manager on the machine on  
> which
> the unlink() was executed is going to call RXAFS_RemoveFile().  When  
> that happens the other client that has the file open locally is  
> going to lose.  Next time it calls RXAFS_StoreFile() it will get  
> VNOVNODE.
>

Only if one of them closes the file will that occur ;)

-rob