Well, my issue with large volume moves isn't solved, but I've gotten everything moved this time. Had to resort to making a copy of a volume and then doing some quick renaming to make the copy the real volume and removed the original volume. Everything's moved to the new disk arrays now at least.
Anyway, we have a different, nagging problem. We have a few users who have complained that if they open and try to write to a Powerpoint 2007 file, they get a "read only" error like "K:\ecgtest.pptx is read-only. Do you want to save changes to a different file name?" Actually, they only get it about 1 in 4 tries. I've been able to reproduce this, but only as a normal user... an admin account in AFS never has this problem. It seems like if I always stay attached to one gateway server only, I never get the error. So, I think it's some kind of file locking issue, possibly due to disconnecting and reconnecting to another server due to round-robin, but I'm not sure that's the actual case, it's just a theory at this point. The users have claimed to map to a specific machine and then get the error anyway, but I haven't been able to reproduce that so far. We get a lot of errors in the logs that say, "kernel: afs: byte-range lock/unlock ignored; make sure no one else is running this program." That's probably from openafs-client since it's kernel-level where smbd isn't. Not sure if that's related. The intermittent nature of the problem makes it especially frustrating. Samba logs don't even indicate a problem at the time of the error message, so I guess it's all on the client's side. There's not a lot of information about using AFS through Samba out there. I'm sure it'd be better to make the users use the OpenAFS client, but we have a large segment who don't want to mess with it, including some of the support organizations on the various campuses. Any advice on this perplexing issue would be greatly appreciated. I'd offer a reward of a six pack of my homebrewed beer if someone has a working answer, but it's not technically legal to ship liquids anymore in the US... Thanks! Chris -- Eric Chris Garrison | Principal Mass Storage Specialist [email protected] | Indiana University - Research Storage W: 317-278-1207 M: 317-250-8649 | Jabber IM: [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
