[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Conflicts when network disconnected

[David Botsch]

If you are just booting, then, you can boot with the -nomount option, which
will cause afs to not mount anything, hence, no hangs. You can then use the
Mount_AFS gui tool available from: 

http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/publicdownloads/afs/

to mount afs once you have a network. You'll also want to edit your afs startup
script so that afs always starts, regardless of whether the network is present.

Now, this doesn't help you if you're already up, afs is already mounted, then,
you disconnect from the network. Once the finder or some app tries to stat
stuff in afs, you're going to see hangs. Unless something has changed, there
doesn't seem to be a clean way to unmount afs or stop then restart afs if
you've already done stuff in afsland.

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:25:51PM -0500, Philip Choi wrote:
> I have OpenAFS installed on my laptop running 10.3.6.  So when I'm 
> not connected to a network, there are some problems.  Notably:
> 
> Finder sometimes hangs, waiting for each AFS server to time-out.
> Mounting disk images causes hang, waiting for AFS servers to time-out.
> Certain applications, like Now Contact and Canon EOS Viewer Utility 
> do not launch or do not work properly.  They only work again when the 
> network is reconnected and the AFS volumes are "back up".
> 
> Does anyone know about this, and is there any workaround?  Seems a 
> shame that disconnected network volumes would cause so much trouble.
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