We've seen the same thing here, with ~2000 Windows machines using
AFS for home filespace. Apps that depend on concurrency management
seem satisfied by the returns from the NT-AFS client (or the SAMBA
translator's handling), but the resultant behaviour of the app is
undefinable and unpredictable. Files get truncated, mishandled,
etc. The globally safe instruction to users has had to be "save
locally, copy to AFS when done and have closed the app".
Concurrent access by Windows/Mac to files in AFS comes with a
guarantee of damage.
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Gary L. Dobbins -- Director, Application Systems Integration
University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technologies
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Farrar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Glew, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: AFS problemswith MS Outlook.PST files
> This bit me, badly, when we stored PC home directories in AFS
(through a
> Samba gateway service).
>
> MS Office documents tend to rely on byte range locks. AFS does
not support
> byte range locks. What's worse (at least under SunOS/Solaris),
the AFS
> client returns a success value to the calling program - while
printing a
> warning on the system console.
>
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:01:32 PDT
> > From: "Glew, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: AFS problemswith MS Outlook.PST files
> >
> > Just a short note: apparently it is not a good idea to place
> > a Microsoft Outlook 2000.PST Personal Folders file on an AFS
> > disk. Repeated data corruption, requiring Inbox Repair Tool.
> >
> > I'm not terribly surprised. I'm guessing different lock
semantics.
> > But, I am wondering if anyone has a list of such compatibility
> > errors.
> >
> > Config info:
> >
> > NT4
> > Outlook 2000
> > AFS Client for Windows v3.4a
>
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