On Friday, April 27, 2012 1:48:13 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:28:20 -0400 > Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In this particular case, they are releasing the volumes every five >> minutes. Depending upon when the VLDB info was obtained there may not >> be a full set of file servers listed that are up to date from the >> perspective of the client. > > So... the Windows client doesn't ask the VLDB again for valid sites when > we get VOFFLINE?
Indeed it does. src/WINNT/afsd/cm_conn.c cm_Analyze() However, if the volume location list does not change, the Windows client will not reset the offline state of a down server. This is to prevent slamming a file server with requests while the volume is offline.
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