[OpenAFS-devel] Re: bos killed fileserver before it was shut down cleanly.

Andrew Deason adeason@sinenomine.net
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:52:05 -0500


On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:47:43 -0400
Steve Simmons <scs@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>
> > Is fssync-debug close enough for you? rxdebug isn't high-level
> > enough to know about volumes, and the problem with the things that
> > _do_ understand volumes typically want VOL_LOCK grabbed to
> > introspect vol package status. So if we are hanging on shutdown
> > because something is grabbing VOL_LOCK and won't let go, the debug
> > command will hang.
> 
> Actually I'm completely neutral about the mechanism.

I was asking that because fssync-debug is not directly accessible over
the net. Does that matter to you?

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Andrew Deason
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