bionic (5) salvage.lock.5.gz

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NAME

       salvage.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
       /var/lib/openafs/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 ALSO

       salvager(8)

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