[9090] in Athena Bugs
AFS file consistency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sun Mar 15 16:44:35 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-afs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 92 16:44:22 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
If I load a file from AFS on workstation B while it is being stored
from workstation A I sometimes get a file full of NULs. In my emacs
buffer now I have a file in which the first 57344 (8K x 7) characters
are replaced by NUL. The chunk size on the workstation that wrote the
file is 8K. The file did not exist before I wrote to it. Rereading
the file with ^X^V gets correct data, but I shouldn't have gotten a
half written file. Maybe it would help to have the writing client or
the server exclusive lock the file while it is being written?
