frequent cache corruption with arla 0.21 on linux 2.2.1

[Magnus Ahltorp]

>    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.

> Is frequent (every 30 minutes) cache corruption a fact of life with
> arla?

It should not be, and I haven't seen that for a very long time. Did
you try the tests in the tests/ directory in arlad?

cd $objdir/tests
make
WORKDIR=/afs/my.cell/i/have/lots/of/space/here ./run-tests -all