[1913] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Linux-AFS and 4.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Nov 17 17:36:46 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 1997 17:35:51 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Mon, 17 Nov 1997 01:49:31 EST
FWIW, no one has yet reported a confirmed case of cache corruption on
an RH-A 4.2 machine. I think it would be premature to try to "fix" a
problem which may not exist.
Yea, yea, I've said this before... YMMV.
-derek
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > and since clearing the cache doesn't add that much time to start-up,
>
> You have to consider the load on the AFS servers from less cached data
> as well.
>
> My idea, which I mentioned on -c sipb today, is that Linux clients
> should remove /usr/vice/cache/CacheItems if they had an unclean
> shutdown, as detected by an rc.d script which touches a file at
> shutdown time.
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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