On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Peter J. Braam wrote:

> Troy,
> 
> Whoops: I think you have hosed your volume (I _did_ warn you to first make
> the cache bigger).   This is perhaps the buffer cache corruption which
> will be gone in 4.8.
> 
> What I would do is 
> 
> 1. copy valuable stuff elsewhere - on client
> 2. purgevol_rep volname 
> 3. createvol_rep .........

Did that, and set both clients cache size to 400000. Then I tried did
'cfs wd' and
'tar zxvf /tmp/linux-2.1.121.tar.gz'

Partway through the untarring, the linux directory turned into a file,
causing the rest of the tar to fail.
[troybenj_at_mos11 test]$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--   1 troybenj 65534           0 Sep 17 07:27 linux  

Now, I just did 'cfs wr', and it turned back into a directory...
Is this a known bug, or did I just stumble across something new?

> 
> - Peter -
> 
> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, this is a known factor of 50 slower.  But try it after 
> > > 
> > > cfs wd (make your cache large first).  I think you'll be pretty impressed.
> > > 
> > > - Peter -
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, it is faster, but I prefer correct over fast ;)
> > 
> > I first tried this trick with the original 30 MB cache and tried to rm -rf
> > the original linux tree I untarred. It was quite fast until I started
> > getting 'no space left on device' errors. So, thinking the cache was to
> > small I re-inited venus with a 100MB cache, and the rm worked ..
> > 
> > Now I get these errors:
> > I don't know where the original error was (it scrolled by too fast)
> > 
> > (and yes, I have clog'd in and have tokens..)
> > 
> > tar: linux/include/asm-arm/limits.h: Could not create file: Not a directory
> > linux/include/asm-arm/vga.h
> > tar: linux/include/asm-arm/vga.h: Could not create file: Not a directory
> > linux/include/asm-arm/mm-init.h
> > tar: linux/include/asm-arm/mm-init.h: Could not create file: Not a directory
> > linux/include/asm-arm/mman.h 
> > tar: linux/include/asm-arm/mman.h: Could not create file: Not a directory
> > linux/include/asm-arm/param.h       
> > 
> > I haven't so far been able to get cfs wd working reliably. It seems to
> > work for a small to medium amount of stuff, but not for large amounts of
> > activity.
> > 
> > Any hints on what to do?
> > 
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