[OpenAFS] Re: Home directory unavalable at certain times.

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On Friday, April 27, 2012 1:48:13 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:28:20 -0400
> Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
>
>> In this particular case, they are releasing the volumes every five
>> minutes.  Depending upon when the VLDB info was obtained there may not=

>> be a full set of file servers listed that are up to date from the
>> perspective of the client.
>
> So... the Windows client doesn't ask the VLDB again for valid sites whe=
n
> we get VOFFLINE?

Indeed it does.   src/WINNT/afsd/cm_conn.c   cm_Analyze()

However, if the volume location list does not change, the Windows client
will not reset the offline state of a down server.  This is to prevent=20
slamming
a file server with requests while the volume is offline.




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