[OpenAFS] Dummy fileserver putting clients 'on hold'

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:

> > 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.
>
> On Solaris you can also just set them from /etc/system.

which (obviously) requires a reboot. I know you knew that but I figured he
wouldn't want to reboot his batch servers. The idea of providing something
to "twiddle settings" in the client, native on platforms that support it
and with a "compatibility interface" otherwise has come up. Maybe some
time things will settle enough that I can work on it.

-D