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Re: Zero length files on 1.4.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Urban Boquist)
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From: Urban Boquist <urban@boquist.net>
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:27:43 +0200
To: "Bill Dorsey" <dorsey@lila.com>
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Subject: Re: Zero length files on 1.4.1
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>>>>> Bill Dorsey writes:
Bill> The README.netbsd file in the 1.4.1 distribution had enough
Bill> information in it for me to successfully build and mount a CFS
Bill> volume. Unfortunately, I've discovered that any files I create
Bill> under an attached CFS directory are always zero length
Did you try building CFS from the NetBSD package system? Assuming you
have "pkgsrc" installed you should be able to just do:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/cfs
make install
and it should all be installed automagically.
I have tried to use CFS on NetBSD/i386 several times, and it works
mostly OK. But I always seem to run into an annoying bug that makes
CFS more or less useless for me. The problem I see is that I sometimes
get seemingly random I/O errors, due to a directory suddenly stat'ing
as a regular file. Very weird...
This is particularly easy to reproduce for me by running CVS on top of
CFS. Suddenly a CVS sub-directory turns into a regular file, of size
512, and with garbage contents. After "a while" it turns into a
directory again. I have been aiming to try do debug this for a long
time now, but never seem to get around to it...
Regards,
-- Urban
