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> Hallo Thomas,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
>> Hi Stephan,
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> How about updating openafs to the new 1.4.5 release? I put up an SRPM in
>>> http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL5/
>> There is an open issue with the fileserver.
>> Jeff Altmann is about to track this down - see
>> http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=74708
>>
>> It seems the problem is really strange and will not often occur -
>> but anyway ...
> 
> thanks for the heads-up! Yes, I noticed that issue, and the fileserver
> patches in this SRPM are in there because it scares me. I had some hope
> that it was sorted out already, but that was before I just read your last
> reply in RT...
> 
> If this problem still persists when SL5 is about to be released, I
> can provide a 1.4.4 package with most of the bug fixes that went into
> 1.4.5 (see the changelog). This one had serious testing in our cell,
> on many clients and a dozen production fileservers, with not a single
> fileserver problem on record - but then we don't have 200
> "XtendedProblems" clients rebooting at the same time...
> 
> Cheers,
>         Stephan
> 

So ... we're waiting to see if the bug get fixed?  If it does, we update, if it 
doesn't, we get the more patched version of 1.4.4?
Is this correct?  Just working on what goes in and what doesn't.  Hopefully we 
can get this release out fairly quick.

Troy

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