[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

[Russ Allbery]

Harald Barth <haba@kth.se> writes:

> We use both of them, too. Restart times would otherwise be very painful,
> especially as the salvager has been running after clean
> shutdowns. Salvage still takes almost an hour, so what is the salvager
> doing during that hour?

Salvaging all the volumes that weren't in use and hence didn't need to be
salvaged, which is one of the things that DAFS fixes.

> The other question is if the DAFS fileserver now in a shape that it
> actually works and if not what can be done to get it there.

We believe it actually works now in master (or with patches pending in
Gerrit, but I think they're all in now).  I think there was an additional
fix that went in after the last 1.5 release that fixes the problem that we
were discussing at the workshop.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>