frequent cache corruption with arla 0.21 on linux 2.2.1

[Michael J. Krasnicki]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jim Nance wrote:

> ---"Michael J. Krasnicki" <kraz at cedapo.ece.cmu.edu> 
> 
> >    I'm trying to use arla to create/edit/compile code that is siting
> in
> > afs. However, I get rampant cache corruption where one .c or .h file
> will is
> > randomly substituted for another .c or .h file in the cache
> resulting in all
> > kinds of interesting compilation errors.
> 
> I used to see exactly this same problem.  When I would
> build code in an arla mounted directory, eventually one
> of the files would "become" another one of the files.
> The last few releases of arla have eliminated this
> problem for me.  In fact, the combination of arla-0.21
> and linux 2.2.1 is by far the most stable combination I
> have ever used.  I dont have any idea why the same
> combination is giving you problems.  I am running
> Red Hat 5.2 which is based on glibc.  Are you using
> a libc5 distribution?
> 

I also run Red Hat 5.2 + patches (mostly those provided by Project Tango: RPMs
for linux-2.2.0). So, I have glibc based system. Specifically, I have
the following glibc rpms:

glibc-profile-2.0.7-29
glibc-2.0.7-29
glibc-devel-2.0.7-29

What version of glibc do you have?

Thanks for your help,
Michael