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Re: how to stop arla (without rebooting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
Thu Nov 5 12:14:34 1998
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Subject: Re: how to stop arla (without rebooting)
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 05 Nov 1998 18:07:13 +0100
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> Q: Is there any stoparla, i.e. the opposite of startarla, around ?
>
> I tried to write one myself by inverting the sequence of calls in
> startarla, but it fails already at the beginning when unmounting /afs,
> saying 'device busy'. But its not really busy, because i checked that
> none of the working dirs in below /afs.
>
> Once started the kernel module and /afs seem to be unremovable, even
> though i can kill the daemon.
If you are running Linux 2.0, xfs has its own cache, which should be
cleaned when arlad is killed, but this may not work very well. If
someone wants to fix this, go ahead. Probably, I won't fix this.
/Magnus
