Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Dale: > > The disconnected mode support does not have any capability to auto-fetch > data into the cache before the user goes offline. > As a result, the only data or metadata in the cache will be > those objects which were actively in use (for which a callback > was obtained from the file server) prior to the disconnection. > > There are ideas for how pinning objects to the cache > should work that have published to the wiki but these and > a user interface to control them have yet to be implemented. > > Jeffrey Altman > > I understand. But I thought since I had run "ls -l" against several directories that all of that metadata would have been cached and therefore visible when disconnected. On my first attempt that appeared to be true. On my second attempt, running "ls -l" against a directory while disconnected against a directory which I had run "ls -l" against while connected, yielded the question marks - unless I had actually looked at the file itself.
I wasn't expecting data to have been fetched for me under the covers, I was just expecting that any and all results I'd seen when connected should repeat when disconnected. To be truthful, I'm not even THAT interested in disconnected mode. I'm more interested in the ability to "hold things over" while disconnected, so I can reconnect. Today I'd have to take down the afs 1.4.x client if I were about to lose my network connection, and that would mean taking down my desktop session and all applications - just to suspend. I want to be able to suspend and restore without loading my session - including my afs home directory. This likely means moving from wired to wireless, wired to another wired, etc. I'm willing to "just worked connected" - the disconnected operation really isn't that important to me. I just want my afs-homed session to survive "network limbo" while the laptop is in transit between point a and point b. Again, I hope to help with testing and debug, not distract. I recognize that there is some learning curve. Dale Pontius -- Dale Pontius Senior Engineer IBM Corporation Phone: (802) 769-6850 Tie-Line: 446-6850 email: [email protected] This e-mail and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message from your system without copying it and notify sender of the misdirection by reply e-mail. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
