[1758] in SIPB_Linux_Development
File lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Aug 19 11:20:07 1997
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:19:53 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-afs-bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
For the last N months (where I don't really know N, but it's probably
greater than six), I would occasionally notice that one of my
frequently-edited files like ~/todo/misc or ~/todo/8.0misc would be
gone, and I'd have to retrieve it from my emacs backups directory.
For a while I wasn't sure whether to blame it on emacs or AFS, but I
recently (a few days ago) caught it in the act: on cutter-john, I
opened a previously existing file (~/projects/jnews/Nntp.java) in
emacs, edited it, saved it, and then went to compile it on a Sun (a
remote machine), and it wasn't there. If you did an ls on the
directory on cutter-john, it showed up, but not on another machine.
Repeatedly saving the file on cutter did not cause the file to appear;
I had to save it under a different name and move it into place on the
sun.
I apologize for not sending a bug report at the time or trying to
collect more information. I would offer to collect more information
the next time I see it happen, but it's such a destructive and
difficult-to-notice bug that it makes me a lot less likely to use
cutter-john.
