[OpenAFS] File System timeouts

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Taylor, Garry wrote:

> Good afternoon;
> 
> Anyone out there know if AFS (Andrew File System) has a variable or other
> timeout which can be modified or altered in order to extend this timeout
> parameter for response time between the volumes and the client and/or AFS
> Master DB.  We have a situation where a customer is utilizing AFS and it
> seems that if the volume is not seen by the client for several seconds, the
> AFS volume goes into a "restructuring mode" (modified FSCK) to rebuild them.

This sounds like it might be something your customer is doing themselves,
as opposed to something OpenAFS does by default. Either that or they've
misled about some of the interaction.

> Since this is the apparent case, I would wonder if the server had dual HBA's
> as to whether the server would failover quickly enough to prevent this in
> case of an HBA failure or the resetting of a controller within the disk
> sub-system.