[OpenAFS] Dummy fileserver putting clients 'on hold'

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:

> The answer is: maneuver the fileserver into a blocking mode for that time, 
> such that requests are retried instead of aborted. The interactive users will 
> moan and start hitting control-C and the like, but at least the more patient 
> ones, batch jobs and running applications will survive.


This is a reason for the hard mount semantics Phil Moore likes to plug,
but you need to tweak a kernel variable. On Linux we export it via sysctl;
On the other platforms, you get to use a debugger.