[OpenAFS-devel] Kernel module recompilation, stability, etc.

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 29 2001, Derrick J Brashear said:
> > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > > On the other hand, afsd becoming dead is esoteric. It does happen when you 
> > > try to kill it by hand (killall -9 afsd). Then even afsd -shutdown won't 
> > > help...
> > 
> > Well, don't try to kill -9 afsd; It won't work. If that's the only way
> > you're making it unhappy, then there's no other problem. What is causing
> > you to need to restart the client on a running host? Presumably *that* is
> > the real problem.
> 
> There are reasons why people will need or want to shutdown afsd though,
> and just saying that they shouldn't do it isn't the right answer.  I
> want to stop the client when I get on the plane with my laptop so that
> it doesn't take up processor time and battery life.  I want to be able
> to shutdown cleanly.  Just saying that people shouldn't stop and start
> the client is avoiding the issue.

I agree, but kill -9 isn't the right answer either.

-D