Hey I'm just passing along what I know. You don't have to take my word for anything. I would rather you or Andrew talk to the kernel guy at Oracle. I asked our Solaris admin (I don't open tickets with Oracle) if he could arrange such a thing. He said the only way he can communicate with them is though their ticketing system.
Derrick Brashear wrote: > I'm not surprised, tho given Oracle has not bothered to give OpenAFS anything > I guess they expect us to take your word for it. > > Yes, afsd is not really interested in exiting and would prefer unmount to > succeed > > Derrick > > > On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:02 PM, "Patricia O'Reilly" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I may butcher this a bit as I am not a kernel person. Reboot on Solaris will >> not work, period -- with or without the patch. This is not good for our >> environment as customers expect reboot to work the way it always has. >> >> You can use the init scripts and all will be well unless you have an >> application that takes an inordinately long time to stop. We have a large >> automount map. Solaris goes through everything in the mnttab file umounting >> one at a time, serially. >> >> We want our customers to be able to happily reboot. The alternative is that >> they bug us about how afs sucks and is preventing their machines from >> shutting down. >> >> Oracle gave our Solaris contact an appcert program to run on the afsd to see >> if it met their API specs on how a kernel app should behave. AFS failed that >> certification. Oracle holds AFS is not doing the right thing. Sun's reboot >> kills all user processes successfully except afsd. Oracle says that the >> afsd's are not user processes that never exit, they are really kernel >> threads and not user processes at all. >> >> We need Sun's reboot to make an exception in AFSes case and stop waiting >> indefinitely for afsd to go down. >> >> --patty >> >> Derrick Brashear wrote: >>> without looking I am betting those are slated for 1.4.15 which is probably >>> about a month out >>> >>> Derrick >>> >>> >>> On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Jeff Blaine <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2/28/2011 3:18 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:10:54 -0800 >>>>> Patricia O'Reilly<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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, >>>> >>>> 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). >>>> >>>> Devs: What's the timeframe to see these patches in an >>>> official 1.4.x release? Any idea? >>>> >>>> Thanks again. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenAFS-info mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenAFS-info mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
