[OpenAFS] mounting lots of volumes quickly

[Leland J. Steinke]

I have been doing testing of OpenAFS 1.2.8 (from source, not src RPMs, on RH 
8.0, on a dual-500MHz P3 w/512M RAM, with /vice[ab] on ~13G ext3 partitions on 
different physical drives).  Part of this is disaster checking by restarting the 
bosserver, or just power-cycling the server.  I am using the -DontSalvage option 
for salvager in BosConfig.

Here is the relevant section of FileLog:
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Mon Mar 31 17:18:07 2003 File server starting
Mon Mar 31 17:40:01 2003 Partition /vicepa: attached 15450 volumes; 0 volumes 
not attached
Mon Mar 31 18:01:57 2003 Partition /vicepb: attached 15392 volumes; 0 volumes 
not attached
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Since these volumes are to contain customer home directories and mailboxes, 
there is no way to put the "more important" volumes on the first partition.  Is 
there anything I can do to get the volumes in these partitions to mount more 
quickly?  From a quick scan of src/vol/volume.c, it would appear to not be the 
case, beyond getting faster drives/RAM/CPUs.  Mounting more than twelve volumes 
a second is just not cutting it ;-).

Is there a volume "automount" option in AFS that I have not stumbled across yet?


thanks,
Leland