Hello, We've had some strange file corruption and missing data issues with Microsoft Excel 2010 on a Windows 7 OpenAFS 1.5.78 client.
1) A user creates an Excel file on their local drive, then copies it to an AFS RW mount point (via mapped network drive). 2) several clients read the file (no changes made) 3) at some point the file is no longer able to be opened, or it opens but warns of corruption and missing data When I recover the file from the backup on the day of the file's modification timestamp, the restored file is fine. Curiously, the restored file appears identical to the corrupted file: the file size (bytes) and timestamp are identical. The fileservers housing volumes where this has happened are: CentOS 6.0 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 with OpenAFS 1.6.0 RHEL 6.1 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 with OpenAFS 1.4.14 We have upgraded the client to OpenAFS 1.7.2 (we did this just before the 1.7.3 announcement) hoping to fix the issue if it is a bug... Is there any known issue with 1.5.78 client that could have caused corruption like this? -- Jonathan.Nilsson at uci dot edu Social Sciences Computing Services SSPB 1265 | 949.824.1536
