[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3

[Joseph Jackson]

Aaron,

As you may have guessed by the delayed response, I haven't been intimately 
involved in our work on OpenAFS lately. I'm not a kernel programmer, but in 
the past I've done some Q/A type work to help get bugs in front of Chaskiel 
and Derrick. I don't have a formal role in the OpenAFS organization.

I still play a large role in our student labs, though, and our work with 
10.3 has really brought the OpenAFS port back to my front burner. Ever 
since 10.3.2 or so, I've noticed a number of panics during move operations. 
If we can't get the OpenAFS client stabilized, our environment will need 
major rework before we can upgrade our labs to 10.3. So I'm heavily 
motivated to make sure Derrick has what he needs to fix the problems. ;-)

On another list, Surajit Bose from Stanford pointed out that SubEthaEdit 
reliably crashes the OpenAFS client when you save over an existing 
document. I assume it tickles a problem when moving the original file to 
the backup version with the tilde in its name. In any case, reliable ways 
of reproducing problems are a huge help in getting them fixed.

Joe.


--On Friday, February 13, 2004 1:50 PM -0500 Aaron Rosenblum 
<arosenbl@mac.com> wrote:

> Is Joe Jackson from CMU still involved?  I am not sure if he did the
> actual port or if he was responsible for deployment at CMU for OSX.  I do
> remember him asking some fairly in depth questions about OpenAFS/Mac OS X
> at WWDC a couple years back.  Not to call you out joe, just didn't know
> if you were still invested in it (AFS). :-)