[OpenAFS-devel] Re: pthreading the bosserver

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk@MIT.EDU
Fri, 9 Aug 2013 12:26:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 19:57 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that things will need to be able to block.  Returning BZBUSY
>> for BOZO_CreateBnode while we're waiting for shutdown seems fine, to me.
>> Maybe there are internal cases which would need to block, but I don't
>> remember any off the top of my head.
>
>
> During shutdown, yes.  During restart-all, those operations should
> succeed.  Bonus points if you arrange so that CreateBnode during

Is there justification for requiring these operations to succeed during 
restart-all which is stronger than "jhutz wants it"?

-Ben

> shutdown actually does create a bnode that will get started after the
> restart.  But that's not really necessary.