Ah, maybe so... Haven't tried without it.

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University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hartmut Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 9:43 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: Harald Barth; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Fileserver fast start options - 
> what effect?
> 
> 
> Neulinger, Nathan schrieb:
> > We have been running with both options for a while.
> > 
> > Don't forget to add the "-DontSalvage" option to the 
> salvager line in
> > BosConfig. 
> 
> I think that should not be necessary. At least in the source 
> the absence 
> of any parameter is honoured by exiting immediately. Has 
> anyone testet this?
> 
> Hartmut
> 
> 
> > 
> > -- Nathan
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> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Hartmut Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >>Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 7:59 AM
> >>To: Harald Barth
> >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Fileserver fast start options - 
> >>what effect?
> >>
> >>
> >>Hello Harald,
> >>
> >>these were my additions. They do the following:
> >>
> >>--enable-fast-restart
> >>
> >>lets the salvager exit immediately whenever it is called without 
> >>arguments as happens after a chrash. The fileserver had to be 
> >>modified 
> >>to allow attachment of volumes in state V_inUse (actually 
> these lines 
> >>are in volume.c). I made this change because also at our site the 
> >>salvager took very long to end up with only having updated the 
> >>uniquifier in the volinfo-file which seem not to be worth 
> >>such an delay.
> >>
> >>Of course you can still salvage by "bos salvage server 
> >>partition volume" 
> >>or by "bos salvage server partition" or even by "bos salvage server 
> >>-all". For NAMEI-fileservers salvaging single volumes is 
> really fast 
> >>because all data belonging to the volume group are uder a single 
> >>directory. Therefore it makes sense to run a script to salvage each 
> >>RW-volume one after the other instead of salvaging the 
> >>partition because 
> >>the fileserver has not to be stopped.
> >>
> >>--enable-bitmap-later
> >>
> >>could be enabled always. It reads the vnode-files to create 
> >>the bitmap 
> >>only when the 1st time a new vnode is going to be allocated. 
> >>This makes 
> >>the startup of the fileserver a little faster. I can't see any 
> >>disadvantage of this option.
> >>
> >>Both options are based on code I developed for our MR-AFS 
> >>fileservers. 
> >>Because we do not run any OpenAFS fileserver this code could not be 
> >>tested extensively in OpenAFS by our site, but I heard theat 
> >>other sites 
> >>are running fileservers with these options.
> >>
> >>Hartmut
> >>
> >>Harald Barth schrieb:
> >>
> >>>Lastest salvage took far too long (hours), and I stumbled over the
> >>>options --enable-bitmap-later and --enable-fast-restart. As 
> >>
> >>it was not
> >>
> >>>very difficult to build the server by writing the options, I would
> >>>appreciate more information from the author(s) what these 
> >>
> >>actuallu do
> >>
> >>>and don't do and if there is any more configuration required at
> >>>startup. The amount of information found by for example google
> >>>(search: enable-fast-restart) is astonishing low. Then I have some
> >>>questions to folks actually using this (I hope there are): 
> When _do_
> >>>you run salvage? How do you detect volumes that are Off-line? What
> >>>options do you use at fileserver startup? Of course, other
> >>>observations, tricks concerning fast fileserver startup 
> are welcome,
> >>>too.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Harald.
> >>>
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