On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:19:24 -0400 Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/24/2010 4:23 PM, Adam Megacz wrote: > > > Me too, but my hopes are not high. The fact that the databases > > become corrupted when using whole-file locks only suggests that > > there is a more subtle problem lurking here. > > > > Actually it is a well understood problem. I just didn't realize that > the unix cm had it. > > When a whole file lock is write-held, all of the dirty data in the > cache must be written back to the file server before the lock is > released. This is currently not being done and as a result, the > database becomes corrupted. If I understand Simon correctly, clients are also not getting file updates while the file is opened O_RDWR. That would still seem to be a problem even if we flush on unlock. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
