[OpenAFS-devel] Problems with shutting down afsd - revisited
aeneous@speakeasy.org
aeneous@speakeasy.org
Sun, 27 May 2001 20:14:04 -0400
> 1. If I leave AFS running although I shut the network down and reconnect
> the machine the next morning, how long will it take until the AFS client
> recovers?
>
> Until you do "fs checks -all". Put this in the same script you use to bring
> up the network.
Or a couple of minutes elapse. The cache manager periodically pings "down"
servers to see if they're back up.
> And will it recover at all after such a "long" period of
> network outage?
>
> Yes, no problem.
Ditto.
>
> 2... Wouldn't I get quite long, annoying
> timeouts each time I e.g. try to expand a file or command name in the
> shell (as it also tries to look into the AFS dirs)?
>
> I think you might, but as I said, we can fix that. Afs should fail
> immediately on any access if you have no network.
Once the cache manager has marked all the servers as down, then any accesses to /afs will fail immediately.
Markus, you should really try just leaving AFS running. It will probably work better than you think.