Steven,

We never build Linux kernels in Coda, we always build Coda in Coda.  I'm
swamped today and away until next wednesday, but I want to try myself --
I'll probably ask Henry to give it a first shot. 

I have seen files truncated to 0 length -- I have never understood it.

One suggestion I have is to make the local cache bigger (e.g. 40000, 40M).
That's what we use here normally and it gives us little trouble. 

So in short: we'll come back to this and find out what's going on but not
this week. 

- Peter -

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> Peter, et al,
> 
> My joy is short-lived.  Two attempts at building a linux kernel on a coda
> filesystem have failed with spurious truncated *.o files.  Different files
> both times.
> 
> For another data point, a "make boot" insists upon rebuilding absolutely
> everything from the beginning on a subsequent restart.  Granted that the
> kernel build process is a bit kludgy (though getting better), but it is
> substantially smarter than this on an NFS or local filesystem.
> 
> To my eyes, the datestamps look valid and I cannot understand why make
> thinks it needs to rebuild everything.  Is there a difference in how
> stat() reports file information on a coda filesystem that could account
> for this?
> 
> What would you like me to try in pursuit of the file corruption issues?
> 
> Steve
> 
>