[OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

[Anders Magnusson]

Christof Hanke wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:52:02 Anders Magnusson wrote:
>  =20
>> Hi,
>>
>> first environment:  AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36.
>>
>> The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works
>> fine, but on some
>> profiles it just hangs.  Looking at the task manager shows that both C=
PU
>> and network traffic stops,
>> and after a while an error message pops up (after I assume the SMB
>> timeout).
>>
>> This happens about 700 files and 35MB into a profile of size 5000 file=
s
>> and 125MB.
>>
>> The directory where it fails contains 900 files with quite long names,
>> but it's not the
>> directory max-limit that is the problem.
>>
>> Copying the profile just using Explorer works fine and has no problem.
>>
>> The cache size on the client is set to 800MB (32-bit client).
>>
>> Who can we debug this?  Any hints?  Have I missed something? :-)
>>
>>    =20
> Hmm, not that I know anything about the windows-client, but  maybe you =
should=20
> try the newest windows-client ?
> It has unicode supported for funny names like "Sm=F6rebr=F6d" in direct=
ories and=20
> profiles, which could lead to behaviour like that.
>  =20
No, it's not the the character set that is the problem, it's something el=
se.

-- Ragge