[OpenAFS] Re: "Starting AFS cache scan..."

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> writes:
> Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> wrote:

>> I've got my openafs cache in tmpfs (via a loopback-mount), so every
>> time the machine comes up it sees an empty cache directory and spends
>> some time "Starting AFS cache scan..." -- creating the directory
>> structure.
>> 
>> Unfortunately the AFS startup script returns before this process
>> finishes.  This means that other startup scripts -- which depend on
>> /afs being mounted -- will end up running before /afs has been mounted.
>> 
>> Is there any way to change this behavior so that
>> /etc/init.d/openafs-client doesn't yield control until it has at least
>> attempted to mount /afs?

> Debian?

> I don't think there's any init script options or anything to do that,
> but if you want to edit the init script locally...

> If you just run afsd directly instead of backgrounding it, it sounds
> like it'll do what you want. That is, replace the line in the script
> that has "start-stop-daemon --start <stuff> /foo/afsd -- $AFSD_OPTIONS"
> with just "/foo/afsd $AFSD_OPTIONS".

Is there any reason not to do this?  If not, I can just make this change
in the Debian package.  I don't recall why start-stop-daemon was used
there in the first place.

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