[OpenAFS] Small suggestion for RH spec file?
Derrick J Brashear
shadow@dementia.org
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:03:28 -0500 (EST)
On 29 Dec 2002, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> writes:
>
> > In my case, it wouldn't make any difference. My route to the corporate
> > AFS server goes over a VPN link which is not up all the time. Even with
> > dynroot, the system hangs if I accidently try to cd into that part of the
> > /afs/* tree when the link is down.
>
> I submitted a patch that would timeout a server quickly if the route
> to that server does not exist. It may not work properly for a VPN
> if you have some other "default" route, but you may be able to play
> some route hackery.
For Linux. It didn't make 1.2.8 but we should have it dealt with shortly.