KAFS-PRELOAD(8)

✨ KAFS-PRELOAD(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the kafs-preload page 💖 (that's section 8 of the kafs-client manual, iykyk) — the AFS filesystem configuration preloader, and she is literally the setup queen 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kafs-preload — AFS filesystem configuration preloader 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kafs-preload [-Dv] [<configuration file>]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically this program loads static configuration into the AFS filesystem, and by "static configuration" we mean the good stuff: preloading cells, setting the workstation cell (@cell), and the system identifier list (@sys). It's giving... loading the vibes before the party starts 🎉

Not me usually calling this directly though — fr fr, this program is not usually invoked directly. It's normally called from a systemd service unit file, doing its lil thing in the background like a main character who doesn't need an entrance 🫶

And here's the tea ☕: if the properties sysname or thiscell get changed in the kafs client configuration file, running kafs-preload will update the /proc files. So yeah, she keeps things in sync. Slay 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -D — Execute in debug mode 🐛✨ Instead of writing to various /proc files, it writes to stdout. Very "let me show you everything, bestie" energy.
• -v — Increase the verbosity of the output 🔊 This may be specified multiple times — the more -vs, the more it yaps. Obsessed.

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — On success 🎉 ate and left no crumbs
• 1 — If an error occurs during processing 😭
• 2 — If a command line error occurs 🙈
• 3 — If bad configuration is detected 💀

lowkey important: these numbers are how you know what went wrong, so check them, bestie. no cap.

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

# kafs-preload -v /etc/kafs/client.conf
kAFS: Preloading cell database
INFO: rootcell set to ca-zephyr.org
INFO: sysname set to x86_64

look at her go ✨ iconic behaviour, honestly.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• kafs-client.conf(5)
• aklog-kafs(1)
• kafs(7)
• proc(5)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2020 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) 🫶

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was kafs-preload from the kafs-client crew, version 0.9, dated 2026-08-27 — go forth and preload those cells, mwah 💋💖