[1941] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: AFS cache corruption under 2.0.32
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Tue Dec 2 02:06:00 1997
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-afs-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Dec 1997 21:56:09 EST."
<199712020256.VAA25612@harlie.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 02:05:17 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> I have a machine whose video card is not particularly stable and will
> sometime lock the machine when graphics programs mess with the color
> map. Anyway, it crashed, and then /afs/athena/user/n (and possibly
> other things) went away. This sounds to me like AFS cache corruption.
> I nuked /usr/vice/cache and rebooted and things worked well again.
I'm still of the opinion that holding an extra 10MB or so across
reboots is worth the cache corruption problems that seem
to happen. Unless we can find a better way to ensure that
the cache is clean when the machine boots, we may want to
make the cache get removed at boot-up before we release 4.2.
Erik
