[OpenAFS] when clients come up faster than servers

[Christopher Allen Wing]

You can use the -dynroot afsd option; this will start up AFS and not
actually attempt to contact your cell's servers until a process actually
tries to use /afs.

The disadvantage is that /afs will be a fake directory created from the
contents of CellServDB, not the root.afs volume in your cell. (which is
problematic if you want to create anything special in /afs)


-Chris Wing
wingc@engin.umich.edu


On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, steve rader wrote:

> When my power fails, most of my (linux) clients come up before
> my servers, and so I have to manually reboot clients to get
> their afs going.
>
> Is there some way to handle this problem gracefully?  It seems
> that a reasonable solution would be to delay starting afs (on
> clients) until afs service (server-wise) is up and running.
> Has any one implemented such a thing?  Other ideas?
>
> steve