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Re: frequent cache corruption with arla 0.21 on linux 2.2.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
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To: Jim Nance <jim_nance@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: frequent cache corruption with arla 0.21 on linux 2.2.1
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 04 Feb 1999 14:34:50 +0100
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> 1) Trying to read a file larger than arla's cache fails.
This will not work, since arla always fetches whole files.
> 3) sometimes (rarely) when doing something like a make -j 4
> make will fail, complaining about a file on an arla
> filesystem that it thinks is missing but which is
> really there. Restaring make "fixes" the problem.
We have noticed this problem. It is, however, (normally) a problem
with make and it's inability to parallelize compilations with complex
dependencies.
/Magnus
map@stacken.kth.se
