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=head1 NAME
salvage.lock - Prevents multiple simultaneous salvage operations on a partition
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The salvage.lock file guarantees that only one Salvager
(B<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 B</usr/afs/local> directory and invokes the
B<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.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<salvager(1)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.
This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was
converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ
Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.