[OpenAFS] AFS linux-client doesn't suspend?

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:38:31 -0800


Michael Heinrich <michael@vierpi.de> writes:

> I want to use AFS on my linux-laptop where I suspend to disk (swsusp2)
> or to ram quite regularly.  With afsd running suspending didn't work.  I
> don't have the message at hand but it was something like "afsd can't be
> suspended" in /var/log/messages.

> Is there any chance to get this functionality (without stopping afsd)?

> Client-version is 1.4.0 on Gentoo x86.

1.4.0 doesn't suspend properly with kernel versions later than 2.6.13 or
.14 (I forget exactly which one) due to changes in the kernel
refridgerator interface.  1.4.1-rc10 is supposed to work properly, but
I've not tested it myself.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>