[OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

[Esther Filderman]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I always thought the problem was that Fortran compilers are horrendous
pieces of @*(%)%#@.  But maybe I'm just a biased old fart.