8.3 Starting and Stopping ShadowFS

ShadowFS must be running in order to provide a merged view to SMB/CIFS users if you are using Novell Samba to provide file access to a DST shadow volume. You might also use ShadowFS to provide a merged view for supported native file access protocols, such as SSH and Novell FTP.

To enable ShadowFS to start up automatically on system restart, see Section 7.4, Loading ShadowFS.

Only one instance of ShadowFS should be loaded at a time. Before you attempt to manually start ShadowFS, ensure that you have stopped any running instances of it.

  1. Log in as the root user, then open a terminal console.

  2. Enter the following command to stop ShadowFS:

    /etc/init.d/novell-shadowfs stop
  3. Enter the following command to start ShadowFS:

    /etc/init.d/novell-shadowfs start