[OpenAFS] /afs area is hanging
Jason Edgecombe
jason@rampaginggeek.com
Wed, 13 May 2009 20:27:09 -0400
Mark Henry wrote:
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> This is a happy day. Derrick it looks like your skills have pointed us to the
> solution. I mentioned that we use a loopback device to mount our afs cache
> filesystem. That device was /dev/loop0. Well, after the direction that you
> gave us we found that /dev/loop0 was also being used as a method of restricting
> font cache for a different app. When the app would run the afs cache was
> getting clobbered and the afs hang would follow. We have moved the afs cache
> to a new place now and it looks like this problem has been solved. Thank you
> all on openafs.org that helped us with this issue. Thank you Derrick for the
> key piece of info that has solved this one.
>
I'm curious what the backing store for /dev/loop0 is in your setup. what
advantages do you receive while running this way?
Is this so you can store the cache in a ramdisk?
Thanks,
Jason