Changes to AFS Commands, Files, and Functionality

This section briefly describes commands, command options, and functionality that are new or changed in OpenAFS. Unless otherwise noted, the OpenAFS Administration Guide and OpenAFS Administration Reference include complete documentation of these items.

A New Command

OpenAFS includes the new fs flushmount command. The command's intended use is to discard information about mount points that has become corrupted in the cache. The next time an application accesses the mount point, the Cache Manager must fetch the most current version of it from a File Server. Data cached from files or directories in the volume is not affected. The only other way to discard the information is to reinitialize the Cache Manager by rebooting the machine. Symptoms of a corrupted mount point included garbled output from the fs lsmount command, and failed attempts to change directory to or list the contents of the volume root directory represented by the mount point.