[4205] in Athena Bugs
comments on bug report #4201
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Mon Feb 12 23:52:44 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 15:31:25 -0500
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [4201]
The problem Mike Fetterman is encountering are protocol related.
What happens is that the client requests the rename, the server
complies, and the reply is lost.
The client then asks again, and the server says "the file you want to
rename doesn't exist". [There is/should be some server-side caching of
previouisly seen requests, but it seems that the busy fileservers are
either not caching or having the cache overflowed by lots of
operations.]
To properly fix this requires infinite state on the server side; some
cache tuning can probably reduce the incidence to negligible.
John
