Crash Recovery

We now look at how AFS handles client-side and server-side crashes.

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From the description in the previous lesson, you might sense that crash recovery is more involved than with NFS. You would be right.

Client side

For example, imagine there is a short period of time where a server (S) is not able to contact a client (C1), for example, while the client C1 is rebooting. While C1 is not available, S may have tried to send it one or more callback recall ...