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From: Bob Oesterlin <oester+@rchland.ibm.com>
To: info-afs@transarc.com, sje@ch.hp.com
Subject: Re: AFS problem
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Excerpts from ext.misc.info-afs: 6-Dec-93 AFS problem sje@apollo.hp.com (2103)
> I have an AFS problem and would like to find out if it is a bug or if I
> am trying to do something that is unsupported. I am running AFS on a
> hp9000/s700 running HP-UX 9.0.
> The problem is with creating a scratch file by doing an open on it and
> then unlinking it. This works fine for local HP-UX files and for NFS
> mounted files but it doesn't work for AFS files. When I do a ftruncate
> on an unlinked file in AFS the ftruncate fails.
Nope, can't do that in AFS. If you open a file, and then unlink it, all
bets are off. It might get flushed from the cache, and then when you try
and read it again, the cache manager can't fetch it from the server.
For what it's worth, this should work with DFS...
Bob
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