[OpenAFS] deleting /usr/vice/cache/*?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> Don't do that while it's running or you'll have severe problems - afs will
> likely completely hang.
> 
> Doing that before afs is started should be fine. You can also just 'cat
> /dev/null > /usr/vice/cache/CacheItems' for similar effect that doesn't have
> to actually delete all the files first.

Even while the AFS cache manager is running, it's perfectly safe to remove
the CacheItems file.  This will not affect the running cache manager at
all, but is sufficient to cause all cached data to be flushed at the next
restart.

While AFS is running, it is _not_ safe to remove the V* files, or to empty
the CacheItems file as Nathan describes above.  Either of these actions
has the potential to hang your AFS client, crash your machine, or cause
other bad effects.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA