Re: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-13 Thread 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

RE: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
1) When shutting down, should all database servers be shutdown before the fileservers, or should the fileservers be shutdown first? 2) When starting up, should the fileservers be started first, or should the database servers be started first? You need the database servers to be up while

Re: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
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 should

Re: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-10 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:50:27PM -0500, 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, tha is less than 36 hours from now. Others have addressed the proper order for

Re: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
On 1/10/13 11:45 PM, Thomas Kula wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 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, tha is less than 36 hours from now. Others have addressed