[1485] in NetBSD-Development
Re: 1.3_ALPHA afs module (i386) for internal testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David D Golombek)
Wed Oct 29 02:33:38 1997
To: John Kohl <jtkohl@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: David D Golombek <daveg@MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 1997 02:33:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: John Kohl's message of "Sun, 26 Oct 1997 10:04:39 -0500 (EST)"
<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (John Kohl) writes:
> The changes for 1.3_ALPHA involved a few fixes for size mismatches of
> (-1) vs. 0xffffffff vs. VNOVAL for testing whether particular attributes
> were provided in calls to afs_setattr(), as well as changes for the
> signature to VOP_READDIR().
>
> I'd like to get some friendly testing of this version before sending it
> out to the world. See
> /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/afs/build/i386_nbsd1/dest/root.client/usr/vice/etc/dkload/libafs-1.3_ALPHA.o
I've been using this pretty heavily for the last day, and it has been
doing well except for one glitch, mentioned below. It doesn't fail in
any of the ways that the 1.2G version did (attribute confusion on
writebacks primarily), or in any new ways.
The one glitch I've seen was that my homedir appeared to suddenly
dissapear at one point, with all files separately reporting "Connection
timed out", eg:
ls: Links: Connection timed out
ls: Login: Connection timed out
ls: Mail: Connection timed out
ls: NetBSD: Connection timed out
ls: OldFiles: Connection timed out
It didn't appear to be all of AFS that was confused, because my /srvd
link was still fine. However, several other parts of AFS were
confused, including /mit/gnu/*. At this point, I renewed my kerberos
tickets and re-aklog'd, and the bug went away. I'm not certain that
my tickets had expired when the bug originally appears, but it was
about the right time for them to run out, so it seems likely.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce this behavior by getting 5
minute tickets and letting them expire. I don't believe this was tied
to any sort of a network/AFS lossage because I was able to access my
homedir from another machine on the same subnet during my 1.3
machine's lossage. Let me know if there are any other tests you want
me to run.
DaveG
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