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Re: Anyone tried AFS 3.1 beta with SunOS 4.1.1 yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 7 19:55:35 1991
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 1991 00:23:50 PST
From: David Nichols <nichols@parc.xerox.com>
To: Info-AFS <info-afs+@transarc.com>, Liz Hines <hines+@transarc.com>
In-Reply-To: <UbWCUKH0BwwQI0db4a@transarc.com>
I installed the client code from AFS 3.1 beta, sun4c_41 systype on my
SparcStation 2 running SunOS 4.1.1. So far, nothing has crashed, but my
use of AFS right now is negligible. It did boot, and I was able to read
a write a few files.
One thing I just discovered while trying to compile up the AFS code from
Xinu concerns me, though. In SunOS 4.1.1, the ic_spare array in the
inode has been used:
/*
* XXX - the disk spares were used to avoid changing
* the size of the incore inode in a minor release.
* Fix for 5.0 release.
* Also remove the code in iget, iupdat that clears them.
*/
long ic_delaylen; /* 112: delayed writes, units=bytes */
long ic_delayoff; /* 116: where we started delaying */
long ic_nextrio; /* 120: where to start the next clust */
long ic_writes; /* 124: number of outstanding writes */
Don't know what they're using these for, but I'd be sure my backup
system was working, just in case.
David
