[OpenAFS] Re: Solaris 10 SPARC hang on shutdown

[Derrick Brashear]

I'm not surprised, tho given Oracle has not bothered to give OpenAFS anythin=
g I guess they expect us to take your word for it.

Yes, afsd is not really interested in exiting and would prefer unmount to su=
cceed

Derrick


On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:02 PM, "Patricia O'Reilly" <oreilly@qualcomm.com> wro=
te:

> I may butcher this a bit as I am not a kernel person. Reboot on Solaris wi=
ll not work, period -- with or without the patch. This is not good for our e=
nvironment as customers expect reboot to work the way it always has.
>=20
> You can use the init scripts and all will be well unless you have an appli=
cation that takes an inordinately long time to stop. We have a large automou=
nt map. Solaris goes through everything in the mnttab file umounting one at a=
 time, serially.=20
>=20
> We want our customers to be able to happily reboot. The alternative is tha=
t they bug us about how afs sucks and is preventing their machines from shut=
ting down.
>=20
> Oracle gave our Solaris contact an appcert program to run on the afsd to s=
ee if it met their API specs on how a kernel app should behave. AFS failed t=
hat certification. Oracle holds AFS is not doing the right thing. Sun's rebo=
ot kills all user processes successfully except afsd. Oracle says that the a=
fsd's are not user processes that never exit, they are really kernel threads=
 and not user processes at all.
>=20
> We need Sun's reboot to make an exception in AFSes case and stop waiting i=
ndefinitely for afsd to go down.
>=20
> --patty
>=20
> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>> without looking I am betting those are slated for 1.4.15 which is probabl=
y about a month out
>>=20
>> Derrick
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 2/28/2011 3:18 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:10:54 -0800
>>>> Patricia O'Reilly<oreilly@qualcomm.com>  wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> Even with the patch the wait is about an hour with the init script.
>>>> To be clear, you mean it takes that long for all of the scripts to run,=

>>>> right? The OpenAFS script itself doesn't take an hour.
>>> Patty,
>>>=20
>>> FWIW, I applied the patches just now to 1.4.14 and
>>> shutdown -g0 -y -i6 works properly for us (comes down
>>> properly within 1 minute).
>>>=20
>>> Devs: What's the timeframe to see these patches in an
>>> official 1.4.x release?  Any idea?
>>>=20
>>> Thanks again.
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