Fileserver has no idea which client has it open(*), so... query who? * Not as such. You could guess. There's no mechanism to query though. And what if the client has gone offline now, but will come back shortly? Or is at a new address?
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, John Hascall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > In other words, the .__afsNNNN files are unnamed files that as far > > as the file server is concerned are still in use by some client. > > The reason the files are left behind is because the AFS cache manager > > that renamed the file did not delete it before it lost contact with > > the file server (network dropped, cache manager was stopped, machine > > crashed, ...). > > > Since the file server has no way of knowing if the file is still in > > use it can't delete it. > > Why not? Is there no way for the file server to query the > cache manager and ask? > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
