[OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:51:46 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Sergio Gelato wrote:

>> One caveat though is that if things are trying to access files in AFS on
>> the client while you shutdown the client, the afsd processes won't die.
>
> Precisely. Having recently tried to upgrade OpenAFS on a Solaris 8
> test system via the modunload route, I can say that if AFS is in active
> use there is a good chance of the modunload approach triggering a
> kernel panic. So I prefer to upgrade with a clean reboot instead.

umount should fail if something is accessing AFS. If umount fails, afsd 
-shutdown should fail, as should unloading the module.

Derrick