[OpenAFS] Unclean shutdown: AFS client ate my filesystem (ext3)

[Tim C.]

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  On a related note, I'd like to point out that on the linux afs.rc script, it
references a "killafs" script, which is no where in the OpenAFS package.  It
calls that script(as /usr/vice/etc/killafs) to send signals to the afs
processes so that /afs can be properly unmounted.  After tracing down problems
in Linux AFS, I finally found this script after a long agonizing google search
on a site in DE, where I couldn't read any of the web page, but was able to get
the script.
  I've attached it for anyone else looking for it. :^}

My Two Cents,
  Tim

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Helge Bahmann wrote:

> On 10 Jul 2002 Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Helge Bahmann <bahmann@math.tu-freiberg.de> writes:
> >
> > > Perhaps I should do "fuser -9 -k -m /afs", but this is racy
> >
> > Well, the system shutdown process sends a SIGTERM and SIGKILL to all
> > processes, which should DWYW.  It should kill off all the users of AFS
> > and then allow AFS to be unmounted.
>
> nyay :-/ init sending term/kill to all processes happens later; it would
> not be good to do this while afs is running because the afsd's would be
> affected as well
>
> > > Does openafs have an option for "forced umount", like nfs?
> >
> > Nope.  If AFS is in use, it cannot be unmounted.  There is no "force"
> > because applications may die horrible deaths if you do it.
>
> I prefer applications dying to my filesystem dying
>
> okay, on the next upgrade will do with ext2 and separate partition
>
> Regards
> --
> Helge Bahmann <bahmann@math.tu-freiberg.de>             /| \__
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