[OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

[Garance A Drosihn]

In case anyone is curious, we shut down all the file servers
and left up all the database servers during the two-hours
that much of our network was done.  The database servers were
on a single switch, so they never lost contact with each other.
On the file servers I did 'bos shutdown <fs> -wait -localauth'
and unmounted the iSCSI disks.  After the network was back I
re-mounted the iSCSI disks and did 'bos startup's.

Everything worked fine.  Thanks!

	-- garance alistair drosehn
	-- senior systems programmer


On 1/10/13 11:14 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> You can shutdown the file servers without shutting down the
> database servers.  During the outage the database servers
> may lose the ability to elect a master.  Therefore you should
> avoid making any database changes during the outage window.
>
> I would run one file server with a single local disk partition
> containing a readonly site for the root.afs and root.cell volumes.
> This could be on one of the database servers.

> If you are going to shutdown the database servers.  Shut them down
> after the fileservers and restart them before the file servers.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
> On 1/10/2013 10:50 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Due to circumstances way beyond my control (a major network
>> upgrade), I am going to need to shutdown our entire AFS cell
>> this Saturday.  So, that is less than 36 hours from now.

>> And if I'm shutting down all our fileservers, I assume I
>> should also shut down all database servers.  (True?)