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Managing the AMASS File System

Cancel Outstanding Requests

You can cancel an outstanding READ or WRITE request to the AMASS file system by using <Control C>, which is the standard UNIX interrupt signal. This can be used during normal AMASS operation.

When there has been a fatal error in AMASS, the system administrator can cancel outstanding requests, gracefully bring AMASS down, and restart AMASS (run

)—withoutrebooting—by using /usr/amass/tools/killdaemons -f -t seconds, which brings AMASS down in the specified number of seconds.

Note

As a result of using killdaemons, the system administrator may notice that flag states (flags, such as A=active, C=volcomped, I=inactive, K=reserved, O=offline, Q=quick formatted, U=unformatted) may be affected. For example, a volume might show a flag state of both “Q” and “U” (formatted and unformatted).

To display the correct flags, you must rerun the AMASS administrative command that manipulates the flag, for example, rerun the volformat command. Internal ADIC testing has found this to affect the volformat, volinlet, and voloutlet commands.

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