[OpenAFS] 1.1.0 client on RH 7.1

Sam Hartman hartmans@mekinok.com
24 Jul 2001 11:47:50 -0400


>>>>> "Paolo" == Paolo Saggese <NOSPAM@lngs.infn.it> writes:

    Paolo> Well, when you upgrade a package which provides some
    Paolo> service, the usual practice is to add some preinst/postinst
    Paolo> script to the RPM in order to stop the service before the
    Paolo> upgrade (preinst run /etc/init.d/afs stop) and start it
    Paolo> again after the upgrade has completed (i.e. start again in
    Paolo> the postinst script).

    Paolo> I guess this is what you'd like to have in the OpenAFS spec
    Paolo> file, too...

No, not really.  Unmounting filesystems while running an upgrade can
be fairly bad.  This is especially true if parts of the upgrade are
coming from the filesystem being unmounted or if that filesystem is
important for services not involved in the upgrade.