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Re: AFS cache corruption under 2.0.32
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Dec 2 14:04:16 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>, warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU,
linux-afs-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Dec 1997 13:53:23 EST."
<199712021853.NAA03895@dcl.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 14:03:39 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> If the AFS cache corruption only occurs when the machine is
> uncleanly shutdown, I'm not sure we can really blame the AFS
> code..... does any AFS port handle that condition cleanly?
No other AFS port is known to have such dramatic or frequent lossage
when a machine experiences an unclean shutdown. It's common practice
to use stop-A and "boot" to reboot cluster suns, for instance.
However, you're probably right that it's probably not AFS's problem.
I suspect that it's because ext2fs doesn't make even a vague attempt
at staged writes like FFS does.
