On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Thomas Briggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
>
>>>
>>> My experience with this (Snowleopard, 1.5.7x) matches Derrick. My laptop 
>>> does not mount oAFS on boot because if you're in a non-internet situation 
>>> it slows the boot down badly,
>>
>> i boot even offline with openafs; no noticeable difference in speed.
>> nor should there be assuming you didn't turn off dynroot.
>
> That was my expectation, and my experience with 1.4.  Booting w/ AFS made 
> boot quite a bit slower.  It hangs w/ messages about cache scanning.

which is interesting, because that doesn't even have a network component to it.

what's in /var/db/openafs/etc/config/afs.conf file, in the OPTIONS variable?

>>
>>> but once it's up the only problem you have when disconnected is access to 
>>> AFS-based files is rather poor. :-)
>>>
>>> If I recall correctly, *if you wait long enough* the shutdown of oAFS does 
>>> eventually succeed. That time, given that I had a files/volumes referenced 
>>> in AFS, was very very long. Maybe hours. Better to leave it up.
>>
>> it should time out servers (and that's supposed to be instant)
>
> Time outs seem to take quite a long time.  This seems especially true when 
> using file dialog boxes.  When disconnected, finder hangs for a few seconds 
> (about 10 seconds) before giving up.

the "it's instant" trick only works if there's no net (as it uses
"hey, no route!" as a hint). happen to know if that's true?

-- 
Derrick
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