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file corruption with arla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Nance)
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From: Jim Nance <jim@sailboat.acs.uncwil.edu>
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Subject: file corruption with arla
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Hello All,
I have been playing around with arla for a couple of months. Overall,
I am very pleased/impressed with the software. Unfortunately I do have
a problem to report. What happens is that when I build software in an
AFS directory tree I will eventually get corrupt files in the cache. Doing
an fs flushv path_to_file will uncorrupt the file. The file and length of
time it takes to become corrupt is random, but I can never get through a
large build successfully because something will always get corrupted.
I initially assumed that the contents of the file were just trash, but
I looked a little harder today. It seems that the bad files actually
contain good copies of other files. Its like the mapping of cached file
to cached file name has become corrupt. I have seen this problem with
several versions of arla and several versions of the 2.1.X linux kernel.
My current configuration is Red Hat 5.1+updates, linux 2.1.124, and
arla-0.13.
If anyone would like more information, please let me know.
Thanks,
Jim
