Coda File System

Re: Strange hang and deqing log message

From: Patrick Walsh <pwalsh_at_esoft.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:08:57 -0600
> But maybe this is a problem in this case, where the removed object is
> still sticking around. I've been hammering reintegration lately and
> ...
> This is a different problem, the first step of server-server resolution
> grabs a global volume lock on all replicas. This lock is released
> whenever resolution completes. If the server that was chosen as the
> master during the resolution dies, these locks stick around. So all
> ...
> This must be the resolve operation that grabbed the lock. I wonder why
> it didn't manage to unlock the other replica when resolution succeeded.

	So perhaps something died or got stuck in the middle of server-server
resolution?  I'll watch for it happening again and try to get a gdb
trace...

	Thanks for looking into this.

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Patrick Walsh
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Received on 2005-08-30 13:10:56