Hi Dan, how do you handle this problem? It is no problem to release the Volume later on automatically, but these long timeouts are bad.
Thanks, Klaas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Pritts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Derek Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Klaas Hagemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] vos release > I can confirm this behavior. > > I've used AFS with file servers in different sites, hundreds of > miles away. > > Normally everything went just groovy, but occasionally when the WAN > links flaked (thanks NYNEX) we would see terrible performance problems > when doing a vos relase. > > If you didn't know what was happening (say, because the vos release > was part of your useradd script, and it just seemingly hung there > forever), or just because you were impatient, and you hit control-c, > the vos release process would die and the volume would be locked, and > the replica at the remote site would be hosed. > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:02:31AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > "Klaas Hagemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > - is afs testing automatically, if these dead file servers are online again > > > and syncs the replikas automiatically? or do i have to try it again and > > > again? > > > > I do not believe that AFS will retry. I think you have to unlock and > > re-release yourself. > > > > > - so will the lock in the vldb be released automatically? > > > > I do not believe so. I think you have to unlock manually. > > > > AFS was not designed for a _widely_ distributed Cell (where widely > > distributed means thin pipes between the servers). It was meant for > > one site of an Enterprise network, not a Wide Area Network. > > > > > Thanks, > > > Klaas > > > > -derek > > > > -- > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenAFS-info mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > > danno > -- > dan pritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] > systems administrator 734/352-4953 office > internet2 734/546-4423 mobile > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
