broken cache problem for arla

[Takashi Ichihara]

  Hi all

  Following problems occurs frequently around our environment: When 
a linux system "crash" with panic, some parts of cache files of the 
arla seems to be destroyed.  After this crash, arla does not work 
correctly even rebooting the system. Access to the specific files on 
/afs tree, which are related to the broken cache files, has problem.  

   This problem seems to be easily resolved by inserting a command
to clean the arla cache files in the startup script (file: startarla) 
Following is a suggested patch for this problem for file "startarla".
How about implementing this patch in the next release ?
	
(suggested patch file for startarla)	

--- startarla.old       Fri Feb 19 18:50:16 1999
+++ startarla   Fri Feb 19 18:51:16 1999
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
    mkdir $CACHEDIR
    chmod 700 $CACHEDIR
    chown root $CACHEDIR
+else
+   rm -rf  $CACHEDIR/
 fi

 insmod $BINDIR/xfs.o



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	Takashi Ichihara (RIKEN)
	ichihara at riken.go.jp