[1662] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: cutter-john AFS cache corruption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Mon Apr 28 13:25:17 1997
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Apr 1997 05:43:22 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:26:26 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
This doesn't look like any of the AFS cache corruption problems that
I've seen before. I suspect it may have more to do with the fact that
the volume that your RCS repository is in is essentially full:
% fs lq /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/outland/src/repository/
Volume Name Quota Used % Used Partition
project.outland.src 150000 149273 100%<< 79% <<WARNING
It's possible that rcs not dealing well with hitting the quota limit.
> While trying to check files out using CVS, I got odd errors on
> cutter-john, complaints about "unexpected end of file". The CVS
> source files are fine, because I can go to another machine, and
> successsfully check out the same files (into the same target
> directory) as I tried to do under Linux. And, I don't think that
> the Linux error is permanently attached to a particular file;
> sometimes the file seems to get better, and suddenly checks out
> okay.
>
> I basically have no knowledge of what a cache problem would look
> like; the reason that I'm sending mail about this is that it reminds
> me of what was happening to the Suns a year and a half ago, when I
> would get similar failures on them. Files (under CVS) would
> usually check out properly, but occasionally fail, with odd errors
> about unexpected end of files. I was told that this was caused by
> AFS cache problems, so perhaps the current situation is also cache
> troubles.
>
> The error messages tend to be clustered, but are not restricted to
> such behavior. A typical output from 'cvs co fvwm2' is:
>
> [...]
> co: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/outland/src/repository/fvwm2/modules/FvwmForm/Imakefile,v:47: unexpected end of file
> co aborted
> cvs checkout: could not check out fvwm2/modules/FvwmForm/Imakefile
> U fvwm2/modules/FvwmForm/README
