On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:50:41 +0100 (CET) Thorsten Alteholz <[email protected]> wrote:
> the command 'bos help' says something about 'blockscanner' and > 'unblockscanner'. This shall start something like > '/usr/afs/bin/scanner -block'. But I did not find anything about such > scanner. Can anybody please shed some light on this? Is this a new > fearture for the future? No, it is very old. I believe that is there to accommodate installations with MR-AFS. MR-AFS is for using AFS with HSM systems but is not freely available or open source or anything; you can google around for what little information exists about it. I'm not sure if it's still in use. Those rpcs hard code the commands they run, ugh... I don't have any familiarity with it, but from what I've seen in the OpenAFS source, I think the 'scanner' process is something that shuffled data between disk and tape. Normally it runs continuously or something, but those commands allow you to temporarily disable or enable migrations. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
