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тАО04-09-2008 01:07 PM
тАО04-09-2008 01:07 PM
can I dismout a disk with driver file open on it
I am about to turn off an old SW500 Raid cabinet. After I copied all areas off of the last remaining volume in it and redefined all the logicals that point to it, I checked the volume with $SHOW DEVICE/FILES.
Unfortunately on my old Alpha 6.2 systems I saw:
00000000 [DSKE.TGV034_AXP.SYSCOMMON.MULTINET]LAVDRIVER.EXE;1
We are not using Multinet on any of our Alphas, but in some startup file a long time ago someone had added SYSMAN IO commands to load that driver and connect the psuedo load-average device LAV0: to it, apparently for use with a version of FINGER that no one here uses anymore anyway. Yes, I know it was a bad idea to use a driver .EXE file off of the system disk.
I do not want to reboot ten systems to clear this. Is there anyway to get that file closed so the volume can be cleanly dismounted? A SYSMAN IO RELOAD command returns "unsupported operation or function".
(And before anyone suggests using DISMOUNT /OVERRIDE=CHECK, that will *not* dismount the disk, it will just "mark it" for a dismount that will not complete until the last file on the volume is closed.)
Unfortunately on my old Alpha 6.2 systems I saw:
00000000 [DSKE.TGV034_AXP.SYSCOMMON.MULTINET]LAVDRIVER.EXE;1
We are not using Multinet on any of our Alphas, but in some startup file a long time ago someone had added SYSMAN IO commands to load that driver and connect the psuedo load-average device LAV0: to it, apparently for use with a version of FINGER that no one here uses anymore anyway. Yes, I know it was a bad idea to use a driver .EXE file off of the system disk.
I do not want to reboot ten systems to clear this. Is there anyway to get that file closed so the volume can be cleanly dismounted? A SYSMAN IO RELOAD command returns "unsupported operation or function".
(And before anyone suggests using DISMOUNT /OVERRIDE=CHECK, that will *not* dismount the disk, it will just "mark it" for a dismount that will not complete until the last file on the volume is closed.)
I have one, but it's personal.
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тАО04-09-2008 10:42 PM
тАО04-09-2008 10:42 PM
Re: can I dismout a disk with driver file open on it
The only supported way is a reboot. Any other way is kernel mode hackery with the added risc of crashing the system.
Jur.
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тАО04-10-2008 12:42 AM
тАО04-10-2008 12:42 AM
Re: can I dismout a disk with driver file open on it
I know I will be shot down in flames for this ....
But why not just turn off and remove the redundant , to be retired disk array.
The disk will go into mount verify and then mount verify timeout after a while ..but so what ? Then when you have time in the future to reboot (Without the call to the driver being loaded from this disk), all will be o.k.
Yes your $show dev d will look ugly until the next reboot.
Of course you will have removed these disks from event monitoring (If you have any) already.
But why not just turn off and remove the redundant , to be retired disk array.
The disk will go into mount verify and then mount verify timeout after a while ..but so what ? Then when you have time in the future to reboot (Without the call to the driver being loaded from this disk), all will be o.k.
Yes your $show dev d will look ugly until the next reboot.
Of course you will have removed these disks from event monitoring (If you have any) already.
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