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afs failure rtpc 6.4R

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 31 16:47:37 1990

From: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 16:47:09 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, vice-squad@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

i was running a make in a directory.  during the
make, my afs tokens timed out.  i get (from memory)

	afs: failure to store file (13)

and now the directory itself is unreadable.

	e40-342f-2% ls -ldg misc
	drwxr-x---  3 geer     wheel        4096 Jan 29 09:37 misc/
	e40-342f-2% cd misc
	misc: No such file or directory

so i did:

	e40-342f-2% fs flush misc
	e40-342f-2% ls misc
	Makefile@ ...

in other words, timing during on a directory rewrite
resulted in a recoverable but fairly hostile failure.

--dan


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