[OpenAFS] faststart option for fileserver?

[Derek Atkins]

Yes, but it is not enabled by default in the RPMs.  You need to
rebuild with --enable-faststart.

-derek

Christopher Arnold <chris@pictage.com> writes:

> Just out of curiousity, is there an option to start an afs server back
> up quickly after a crash
> (like by skipping the salvage operation).  I was sort of hoping that
> since I'm using an ext3
> filesystem there would be less risk of corruption?
>
> The reason I ask is that I've got a fileserver which ended up getting
> upgraded to 1.2.10 before I
> could patch the buggy glibc on the server.  I'm going to have to send it
> a KILL signal at some
> point so that it can re-initialize and operate normally again.  This
> happens to be a machine with a million
> volumes on it and the salvage operation is going to take about 1.5 hours
> to complete.
>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Arnold
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> Pictage, Inc. USA                       Tel:  (310) 525-1629 
>
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