Has anyone had a problem with any requirments of tools/scripts that
require filelocking. If so was Transarc willing to give you a fix
to what we call a "filelocking problem" or what your work arounds were.
For example we have a internal email system. We typically run several
sessions of this system on our nodes, therefore the mail box(s) need
to be locked by different sessions at different times depending if
your reading in new mail or sending new mail. We use the rpc.lockd
and rpc.statd to lock over NFS. As we understand it the AFS system
will "lie" to you and say the file is locked and return a "0" code
even though the file is not locked.
I have heard from a Sys Admin (IBM) that Transarc provided a fix
for this problem. Has anyone else heard of this.
Michael Shubaly
Distributed Computing Archtecture
Bell Northern Research Ltd
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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