[OpenAFS] /afs area is hanging

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Mark Henry <mark.henry@infoprint.com> wrot=
e:
>
>> yes, that's very interesting. you've probably told us what we need to.
>> you got an oops in the thread holding the lock, the machine will never
>> recover. what filesystem is behind your afs cache?
>
> We use a virtual ext3 filesystem mounted on a loopback device. =A0We have=
 done
> this with many afs clients and it seems to be working. =A0Here is our fst=
ab
> entry:
>
> /AFSvirtualFS =A0 =A0 /usr/vice/cache =A0 ext3 defaults,loop=3D/dev/loop0=
 0 0

I take it it;'s not likely that something is deleteing files out from
under AFS inside this filesystem?