[1551] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Release workaround for SGI AFS lossage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Nov 29 16:26:33 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:34:22 EST."
<199811251534.KAA07369@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:26:06 EST
> I should have thought of this months ago. It's pretty evil, but the
> situation right now with random hours-long outages of 72GB AFS servers
> is intolerable.
>
> We could probably decrease the incidences of SGI AFS lossage to zero
> by having something in the release which destroys user AFS tokens one
> minute before they would have expired anyway. The simplest thing to
> do is probably to hack the functionality into elmer. It wouldn't add
> any resource consumption (apart from a slightly larger elmer code
> segment) for the normal login case.
>
> Disadvantages:
>
> * It's not totally transparent. Users with sufficient clue
> might get confused when their tokens disappear instead of
> expire.
With recent versions of AFS, expired tokens are not reported by the
tokens command. I don't know if that is because they effectively
disappear, or just because it doesn't report them. My machine still
sometimes (always?) syslogs a message when my tokens expire, so
there's still some hope that this will be useful.
Jonathon
