[OpenAFS] AFS cache on loop device

Kris Van Hees aedil-afs@alchar.org
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:30:13 -0500


Upgrade to OpenAFS 1.3.79...  The 1.3.78 version has a problem that causes the
cache fs to remain marked in use even when AFS has been shut down.

    Kris

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:36:44PM +0100, Ingo van Lil wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I recently installed OpenAFS 1.3.78 on my Linux 2.6.8 laptop.
> Unfortunately I didn't think I'd ever need to access AFS on that machine
> when I installed my distribution, so I didn't allocate any space for an
> ext2 AFS cache partition (I'm using reiserfs for about everything). So,
> in order to avoid a complete reinstallation, I created a 512 MB image
> file, created an ext2 filesystem on it and mounted it via /dev/loop*.
> Using that as cache works pretty flawless, only after shutting down the
> AFS client the filesystem refuses to be unmounted any more ("device is
> busy"). Calling "fuser -m /usr/vice/cache" doesn't show any processes
> accessing the fs, though. What can I do in order to be able to shut down
> my system cleanly again?
> 
>         Cheers,
>             Ingo
> 
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