[OpenAFS] another problem with vos release

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:09:40 PM +0200 Frank Burkhardt 
<fbo2@gmx.net> wrote:

>> So far so bad. How can I stop that transactions? Does OpenAFS end them
>> without any further interaction or do I have to be rude?
>
> OpenAFS ends a transaction after some minutes (default: AFAIK 10 minutes).
> Use 'bos restart [fileserver] fs' to immediately cancel all transactions.


The volserver will end an _idle_ transaction after a certain period of 
time.  An active transaction (one on which there is an RPC in progress) can 
last for a long time.


The volume in question is reported as 76813001 K, or about 76GB.  That's a 
pretty large volume, and may well take more than 2 hours to move or release.

Note that the "transaction is older than..." messages do not mean anything 
is wrong; they're just reporting how long the transaction has been going 
on.  For a large volume it's quite normal for a move to take some time.



Also, while restarting the fileserver will indeed cause transactions to go 
away, it also results in a service outage while the fileserver shuts down 
and then restarts.  If all you want to do is abort outstanding 
transactions, a much quicker approach is to send SIGTERM to the volserver. 
This will cause the volserver to be restarted without interrupting file 
service.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA