SALVAGE.LOCK(5) AFS File Reference SALVAGE.LOCK(5)NAMEsalvage.lock - Prevents multiple simultaneous salvage operations on a
partition
DESCRIPTION
The salvage.lock file guarantees that only one Salvager (salvager
process) runs at a time on a file server machine (the single process
can fork multiple subprocesses to salvage multiple partitions in
parallel). As the Salvager initializes, it creates the empty (zero-
length) file in the /usr/afs/local directory and invokes the flock
system call on it. It removes the file when it completes the salvage
operation. Because the Salvager must lock the file to run, only one
Salvager can run at a time.
SEE ALSOsalvager(8)COPYRIGHT
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