On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Douglas C. MacKenzie wrote:
> Some text/html message about a local-global conflict.

The short explanation can be found in the Coda-HOWTO, which happens to
also explain everything about the write-disconnected problem that Piotr
had. Ofcourse, the howto is very terse, so we have a much more detailed
explanation in

 Coda File System User and System Administrators Manual

    http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/manual/book1.html

    (or as a printable postscript version)
    http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/ps/manual.ps.gz (114439 bytes, 91 pages)

The manual has been updated recently, and is still pretty much uptodate
(at least for the moment).

Jan

=Coda-HOWTO=============================================================
4.7 Repairing conflicts 

Files and directories can get into conflict due to disconnections of
clients or servers from the net, as well as through overlapping
open/write/close sequences on two clients. A object that is in conflict
is representd as a dangling symbolic link and X->@vol.vnode.unique is
the file the symlinks points to. 

How do we get rid of this conflict? 

1. type cfs beginrepair X. This changes X from a symlink into a
   directory. By doing ls X you will see either local global or server1
   server2 server3. In the first case we have a local global conflict and
   in the second case a server server conflict. 
2. If the objects in the directory X are files, you have a file
   conflict, they can also be directories, in which case you can find the
   content underneath. 
3. If you are nervous, this is a good moment to make copy of your files.
   They can be found under the directory X while the repair session is in
   progress. 
4. cfs endrepair X closes up the repair session. 
5. All local global conflicts are repaired with repair. Type repair and
   follow its cryptic instructions. 
6. Server-server conflicts on files are fixed with either filerepair or
   with removeinc. Server-server conflicts on directories are fixed with
   repair. 
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