[OpenAFS-devel] starting afs before network is up..

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> If I have dynroot enabled, I seem to have no problems mounting afs
> before the network is configured (on my laptop). However, if I turn off
> dynroot, afsd starts up, and eventually contacts the servers after I
> bring up the network (fs checkservers says all servers are up). But /afs
> never shows up as being mounted.
>
> Is there any way to store VLdb lookups on disk, so that when a laptop
> restarts, it can grab cached volume location information, and then mount
> /afs using root.afs.readonly cell data from cache?

Not currently.

Of course the right answer is that we should find the bug which causes 
dynroot to potentially deadlock which is in 1.3.x

Derrick