arla finder problem

Magnus Ahltorp ahltorp at nada.kth.se
Tue Dec 11 02:23:28 CET 2001


> What I have noticed (under 10.0) is that I needed to authenticate
> before I got anywhere close to an AFS directory in the finder. If I
> tried finder access before authenticating then the inaccessibility
> of things would be cached by the finder and not updated in any
> reasonable time.

When you are unauthenticated, access is particularly slow because of a
bug in the Transarc/OpenAFS file server. There is a work-around for
this in late OpenAFS (server) code.

/Magnus





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