Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 11:01:22 schrieb Ken Elkabany: > I have six client machines all accessing a single openafs server. The > server and five clients are running Ubuntu 9.10 with openafs 1.4.10. About > 80% of the time when a client modifies files on the afs, the changes are > not reflected on the other clients, even after the file has been closed (a > zip file is unpacked in a directory, replacing all identically named > files). If a new file is copied, often times the other clients will not see > it. Sometimes, after a couple minutes, the files are appropriately updated. > Oddly enough, the sixth client, which is running Ubuntu 9.04 with openafs > 1.4.9, always has the changes properly reflected on it. However, I cannot > guarantee that the openafs client version is the issue as the sixth client > is not running in the same conditions (not in a virtual machine), and is > also running external to the local area network of the other four clients. > Is this expected behavior? I don't recall this being a problem when all our > servers were on openafs 1.4.9. Is there a way to force the synchronization? > This synchronization should happen automatically by the fileserver (using "Callbacks"). For that to happen the fileserver must be able to talk to the clients (UDP port 7001). Check if you have a firewall on your clients with Ubuntu 9.10 preventing that. Just a guess, I don't use Ubuntu.
Christof > Thanks, > > Ken
