[OpenAFS] sqlite on AFS will not work, even with whole-file locking

[Matt W. Benjamin]

If the CM omits to flush in this case, that's a plausible result.  Viced will BCB when the lock is released, but if the changed data hasn't been written back, the cooperating clients lose.

Matt

----- "Simon Wilkinson" <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I strongly suspect that the copy on the client is up to date, at least
>  
> according to the server. However, it may well be out of data according
>  
> to the machine which made the modification. That machine only writes 
> 
> its changes back to the server on receipt of a fflush or close (or  
> when it's cache fills, and it needs to shed some dirty chunks).
> 
> So, if there is a problem here, it's going to be related to the fact 
> 
> that we aren't flushing when a lock is released, rather than our  
> behaviour on obtaining a lock. Perhaps you could verify that case?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
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