Re: [OpenAFS-devel] How to create inconsistency in the volserver and my mind.

2005-03-17 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Jeff has been busy today I see... What is the current status about OpenAFS and Linux threads? I know the thread situation on Linux sucks in general, just tell me your best practice, ok? :-) Ok. My best practice is to run fileservers on SPARC Solaris, thereby avoiding the Linux threads mess, the h

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] How to create inconsistency in the volserver and my mind.

2005-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:33:12 PM +0100 Harald Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose it's possible you could construct something that does this using the convert-RO-to-RW functionality that is in very recent servers. But I'd have to think about it for a lot longer to convince myse

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] How to create inconsistency in the volserver and my mind.

2005-03-17 Thread Harald Barth
> I suppose it's possible you could construct something that does this using > the convert-RO-to-RW functionality that is in very recent servers. But I'd > have to think about it for a lot longer to convince myself that this would > actually be stable. Yes. Something like that would be nice.

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] How to create inconsistency in the volserver and my mind.

2005-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:20:14 PM +0100 Harald Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cysteine# tail -1 BosLog Mon Mar 14 18:15:08 2005: fs:vol exited on signal 6 Actually, signal 6 is SIGIOT, which generally means an abort. It's possible an abort message was written, but went out to the beginnin

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] How to create inconsistency in the volserver and my mind.

2005-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:20:14 PM +0100 Harald Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: command-that-fails | vos restore example a foo -overwrite full Now volume foo is gone on server but still exists in vldb. Why does a vos restore first delete and then create the volume? Would it not be better to

[OpenAFS-devel] How to create inconsistency in the volserver and my mind.

2005-03-15 Thread Harald Barth
Hi everybody, I think this behaviour needs improvement Start with existing volume foo: create volume example a foo 4711 Do a restore command-that-fails | vos restore example a foo -overwrite full Now volume foo is gone on server but still exists in vldb. Why does a vos restore first dele