[OpenAFS] Speeding up Salvage
Russ Allbery
rra@stanford.edu
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:08:38 -0800
"Jerry Normandin" <Jerry.Normandin@dafca.com> writes:
> Also do you have your bos server automatically running restart on a
> weekly basis? I'm looking to minimize downtime. Would splitting up my
> /vicepa to smaller
>
> Partitions speed up the salvage process?
Your file server should not run salvage after a normal restart. Salvage
should only be necessary after an unclean shutdown.
That said, I think the advice to restart the file servers weekly is pretty
thoroughly obsolete. We've not done that at Stanford since at least 1995,
and I think longer.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>