Re: [OpenAFS] Help setting up openafs on debian bookworm

2024-06-06 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Ernesto, Thank you for sharing your notes on what was helpful, and I am glad you did get a working setup. If you do end up writing up specific suggestions, we would be happy to see them. -Ben On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:40:56AM -0400, Ernesto Alfonso wrote: > I wanted to provide an update, I

Re: [OpenAFS] Help setting up openafs on debian bookworm

2024-06-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
[replying to the latest but copying one older snippet since it's important] > > > Now my problem is still understanding why `bos listkeys` now succeeds but > > > returns an empty set when asetkey does list 4 keys. This is the expected behavior. "bos listkeys" only knows about legacy rxkad

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Project Update: New Maintainers Join the Team

2024-05-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I have been happy to serve as OpenAFS Guardian for almost ten years now, but in recent years it has become clear that as the sole Guardian, my availability has become a bottleneck that is slowing down the progress of the project. While I plan to continue my work on the project at the current

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.8.11 Ubuntu packages?

2024-05-29 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 11:26:33AM +0100, Stephen Quinney wrote: > It looks like the openafs ppa packages for Ubuntu have not been > updated for 1.8.11. Does anyone know when that might happen? I'd like > to use the HWE kernel in Jammy but that's now 6.5 which isn't > supported by 1.8.10 I think

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Release 1.8.11 available

2024-03-23 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
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Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.11 beta1 available

2024-02-29 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
rpmbuild. -Ben On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:00:38AM +0100, Berthold Cogel wrote: > Am 22.02.24 um 18:30 schrieb Benjamin Kaduk: > > The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the prerelease > > 1.8.11pre1 is now available. > > > > Source files and available binaries

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.11 beta1 available

2024-02-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
/candidate/1.8.11pre1/RELNOTES-1.8.11pre1 Please assist us by deploying this prerelease and providing positive or negative feedback. Bug reports should be filed to openafs-b...@openafs.org. Reports of success should be sent to openafs-info@openafs.org. Benjamin Kaduk on behalf of the OpenAFS Re

Re: [OpenAFS] Client for latest kernel

2023-05-15 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 10:48:13PM +, Diogo Castro wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I believe I haven’t seen this being mentioned before in the mailing list, I > apologize if otherwise. > We need to have a client built for Centos Stream 9, which is already running > the kernel 5.14.0-307. > In the

Re: [OpenAFS] appropriate -cb numbers for fileservers?

2022-09-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 10:00:44AM -0400, Dave Botsch wrote: > What's the best way to determine appropriate -cb numbers for > fileservers? And is there a max that is "bad" like with -p ? > > Note I'm still on 1.6 servers at the moment, which might change the > answers to the above. As Mark said,

Re: [OpenAFS] Kerberos + Windows

2022-08-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 04:53:11PM +, Ben Huntsman wrote: > ktpass /princ afs/mydomain@ad.mydomain.com /mapuser srvAFS /mapop add > /out rxkad.keytab +rndpass /crypto all /ptype KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL +dumpsalt When the name of the AFS cell does not match the name of the kerberos realm, the

Re: [OpenAFS] Kerberos + Windows

2022-08-15 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 04:43:19AM +, Ben Huntsman wrote: > Hi guys- >Does anyone have a recipe for making OpenAFS work with AD 2012 R2 or 2016 > as a KDC? > >I've seen a few articles on using it with 2008 R2, which mostly involve > re-enabling des-cbc-crc on the AD side... Does

Re: [OpenAFS] Building on AIX

2022-08-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 06:12:00PM +, Ben Huntsman wrote: > Ah, interesting! Thank you for pointing that out! > > Just to test a sloppy fix, I added an include of to > src/afs/AIX/osi_machdep.h, and that allowed the compile to continue. It > stops at src/afs/AIX/osi_sleep.c, but I'll

Re: [OpenAFS] Building on AIX

2022-08-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Ben, On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 04:41:04PM +, Ben Huntsman wrote: > Hi guys! > > Has anyone built this on AIX recently? I see in the code that there is > support for AIX 6.1, and 7.2. I was hoping to get it working on 7.1 so I > figured I'd start with a build on AIX 6.1 to make sure it

Re: [OpenAFS] How to replace pam_krb5 on RHEL 8 systems

2022-06-29 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 04:02:17PM +0200, Berthold Cogel wrote: > Hello, > > we're trying to prepare our environment for the migration to RHEL 8. > > At the moment, with RHEL 7 we still have our user homes in AFS and use > pam_krb5 to get a token at login. In the long term we will migrate our

Re: [OpenAFS] Setup a new OpenAFS cell on Debian bullseye v11

2022-05-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 08:44:39PM +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > Hi, > > I will have time to look into this again Wednesday. thank you for the > links. I will try to make a patch about README.servers. Thank you! To clarify, even filing a bug without a patch would still be a useful thing to

Re: [OpenAFS] Setup a new OpenAFS cell on Debian bullseye v11

2022-05-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Jose, On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 03:18:47PM +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > > I am helping my intern to setup a new OpenAFS Cell on Debian bullseye > (v11), for debug porposes. We are lost. Following the Debian > Documentation (README.server) we are stuck in creating a new key for > the cell.

Re: [OpenAFS] Slow loading of virtually hosted web content

2021-11-19 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Kendrick, While I don't have specific advice for you, I'll make a few high-level points: - most of the community knowledge about tuning, both for fileservers and cache managers, has been recorded in various workshop presentations over the years. That should include what parameters to

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem building a Debian package in AFS

2021-09-11 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:57:36PM +, Mark Vitale wrote: > > > > On Sep 10, 2021, at 9:23 AM, deb...@lewenberg.com wrote: > > > > I have two Debian servers: one is buster and one is bullseye. They both run > > the openafs-client service. When I run "gbp buildpackage mypackage" it > >

Re: [OpenAFS] Rekey AFS - aklog not working

2021-09-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 04:30:41PM +0200, Andreas Hirczy wrote: > Hi! > > I recently tried to rekey our AFS - at last - following the ´basic > procedure´ from https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/how-to-rekey.txt > and https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/install-rxkad-k5-1.6.txt. My > setup

Re: [OpenAFS] kmod-openafs package for kernel 4.18.0-305.el8 does not build

2021-05-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:15:27PM +, Alex Tayts wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems like AFS kernel module does not build for the latest RedHat kernel. > I am trying to build one with mock in pretty much default configuration and > get an error: > > > $ /usr/bin/mock --uniqueext=mockbuild -r

Re: [OpenAFS] error in compiling openafs 1.6.24 on CentOS 8.3

2021-05-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:53:17PM +0200, Giovanni Bracco wrote: > Thank you Jeff, useful information as always! > > For our production cell we must decide if upgrade all the cell to 1.8.x > (a lot of work to be doneo but we have to schedulee that now or then) > or remain with CentOS 7.x also

Re: [OpenAFS] Occasional "VLDB: no permission access for call"

2021-03-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 03:23:42PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: > Hello, > > A new thing I've noticed after we have upgraded everything to 1.8.6 is > like the following: What were you upgrading from? (And I assume you mean 1.8.7?) > ~$ vos remove -server afs01.dfw.openstack.org -id 536870937

Re: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.7 on Linux systems running Crowdstrike falcon-sensor

2021-03-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Martin, On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 07:35:19PM +, Martin Kelly wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:34 PM Benjamin Kaduk <mailto:ka...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > I don't use Crowdstrike so haven't seen it, but can you post the > > > backtrace? > > > Based on wh

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.7 on Linux systems running Crowdstrike falcon-sensor

2021-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:07:43AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Hello, > > Our university uses the Crowdstrike endpoint security tool, and we use > OpenAFS for both our user's home directory as well as serving software to > our students, faculty and researchers. Is anyone else using

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS handling of deleted open files

2021-01-18 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Bruce, Off the top of my head, the "vos release" workflows I deal with all involve adding new data, not removing any. [0] So, in some cases it is prudent to send a best-effort notification to potential consumers that they may experience a pause in access, there's not a real need to

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.7 available

2021-01-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
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Re: [OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

2021-01-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:22:49PM +0100, Andreas Hirczy wrote: > Jeffrey E Altman writes: > > >>> Patches to correct the flaw are available from OpenAFS Gerrit > >>> > >>> https://gerrit.openafs.org/14491 > >>> rx: rx_InitHost do not overwrite RAND_bytes rx_nextCid > >>> > >>>

Re: [OpenAFS] Preliminary findings on today's brokenness

2021-01-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Jeffrey has dome some analysis that is consistent with your results, and posted patches at https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14491 https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14492 We'll be reviewing those shortly. -Ben On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:21:22AM -0500, Chaskiel Grundman wrote: > None of these things

Re: [OpenAFS] low write/read performance with 1.8.x 1.9.0 client

2020-10-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:26:43PM +0200, Giovanni Bracco wrote: > Sorry for the typing mistake in previous mail, but you got the point! > > Now with the proper setting at the client startup the result is clear, > the low performance was indeed due to encryption on! > > Thank you, the case is

Re: [OpenAFS] low write/read performance with 1.8.x 1.9.0 client

2020-10-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
ion, isn't it? > > In both cases I have checked the status with fs getcrypt > > Giovanni > > On 13/10/20 19:48, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:42:14AM -0400, Jeffrey E Altman wrote: > >> On 10/13/2020 9:28 AM, Giovanni Bracco (giovanni.bra...@enea.i

Re: [OpenAFS] low write/read performance with 1.8.x 1.9.0 client

2020-10-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
on nodes with 1.8.x > > release. > > No improvement going to 1.9.0 (both server and clients) either. > > > > Any suggestion? > > Are we missing something important? > > No special tuning in our installation. > > > > Giovanni > > I suspect the observed

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Release 1.9.0 available

2020-10-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
The OpenAFS Guardians are pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS 1.9.0. 1.9.0 is a test version of OpenAFS for all platforms. The recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS is 1.8.6. Source files can be accessed via the web at http://www.openafs.org/release/1.9.0/ or via AFS at

Re: [OpenAFS] Weird issue with AFS hang on a couple of legacy RHEL 6 servers

2020-09-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Anything relevant from `echo 't' | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger`? -Ben On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:31:22PM +, Sebby, Brian A. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few legacy RHEL 6 servers that are still running an older 1.6.x > series DKMS client, which were recently patched and rebooted. On a

Re: [OpenAFS] ARM64 5.4.0-42 with 1.8.5 oops in afs_CellNumValid

2020-08-29 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:48:45AM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: > Hello, > > These messages and oops popped up on one of our ARM64 hosts, running > 1.8.5 client on Ubuntu Focal > > # uname -a > Linux mirror02 5.4.0-42-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 00:24:02 UTC 2020 > aarch64 aarch64 aarch64

Re: [OpenAFS] Build failure: cannot create regular file '.../openafs-1.8.6/lib/libkopenafs.a': File exists

2020-08-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:21:25AM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: > Hello, > > In trying to build 1.8.6 I've hit what seems to be the race condition > mentioned in > > https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14017/ > > --- > /bin/sh ../../libtool --quiet --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 >

Re: Re: [OpenAFS] Clients are blocked with error code -3 of RXAFSCB_ProbeUuid

2020-05-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:30:50AM +0800, huangql wrote: > Hello Ben, > > Thank you for your reply. > > Actually, our farm experiences this issue for some time. And we spent a lot > of time to figure out it. We found when there is large IO throughput to > consume the network bandwidth and

Re: [OpenAFS] Clients are blocked with error code -3 of RXAFSCB_ProbeUuid

2020-04-27 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:16:14AM +0800, huangql wrote: > Hello All, > > > We found some clients blocked. And no more operations are available under > /afs instance like “cd”"ls", all of which are blocked. > > We can see some log message on server side to know the error code -3 > > > Mon

Re: [OpenAFS] Git throwing bus error when pack files not entirely cached

2020-04-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:34:01PM +0300, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > Sorry for reviving this old thread, but this happened to me also. > > > My details: > * the same computer is used as both server and client; > * openSUSE 15.0 as distribution; > * Linux 4.12.14-lp150.12.79-default x86_64 >

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.4 Linux kernel BUG

2020-04-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 01:53:04PM +0100, Chris Cooke wrote: > Hi, > > A machine of ours recently became unresponsive - these are the messages > reported by journalctl for the time it happened: > > Mar 31 22:51:07 lute.inf.ed.ac.uk kernel: afs: disk cache read error in > CacheItems slot 320036

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.4 Linux kernel BUG

2020-04-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
The "disk cache read error" makes me wonder how the hardware is doing; are you in a position to run (e.g.) SMART tests? -Ben On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 01:53:04PM +0100, Chris Cooke wrote: > Hi, > > A machine of ours recently became unresponsive - these are the messages > reported by journalctl

Re: [OpenAFS] no src.rpm on openafs site for version 1.8.5 and 1.6.24...

2020-02-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Giovanni Bracco wrote: > I have seen that the src.rpm are not available on the openafs site for > the last versions of the package. > > The available ones stop at: > openafs-1.6.23-1.src.rpm > openafs-1.8.4-1.src.rpm >

Re: [OpenAFS] Kernel panic running 1.8.4 on linux 3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64

2020-01-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Neil, My money is on "unrelated", but thank you for sending the report with full details! -Ben On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:02:35PM +, Neil Brown wrote: > Hi, > > This is just a heads up in case anyone else has seen or sees something > similar. > > We've just updated an SL 7.6 AFS file

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS client hanged

2019-12-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Qiulan, Can you please confirm that there are no other "INFO: task ... blocked for more than 120 seconds" messages? This is rather curious, since of the three tasks listed here, one is waiting trying to acquire the AFS_GLOCK, and the other two are sleeping (having dropped the AFS_GLOCK in

Re: [OpenAFS] vos release not as "smart" as I thought - or is this a not implemented feature?

2019-11-27 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Did you see https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2019-September/042865.html ? -Ben On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 02:17:29PM +0100, Harald Barth wrote: > > I thought that vos release was smart and only did make a clone + > transfer if the RW had changed compared to the status of the RO >

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS client softlockup on highly concurrential file-system patterns (100% CPU in kernel mode)

2019-11-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:53:59PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > > My setup is as follows: > > * OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, kernel 5.3.9-1-default, client package > `openafs-client` and `openafs-kmp-default` at `1.8.5_k5.3.9_1-1.3` as > provided by OpenSUSE; > > * `afsd` parameters (neither

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Security Releases 1.8.5, 1.6.24 available

2019-10-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
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[OpenAFS] looking for (old) paper discussing the global name space

2019-10-09 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi all, A bit off topic, but as NFSv4 is implementing cross-server referrals, the prospect of having a central server that just makes referrals to other (data-hosting) servers as a sort of global file system namespace has come up, and I offered to find a reference to use for discussion of the

Re: [OpenAFS] vos release running unexpectedly long

2019-09-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:35:09PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: > Hello, > > I'm struggling to find an angle to debug very long "vos release" times > with some of our volumes. e.g. some runtimes for the "vos release" of > a fedora mirror volume from [1] > > 2019-08-22 08:46:58 - 2019-08-22

Re: [OpenAFS] Per-session or per-user (persistent) keyring for Kerberos

2019-08-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 02:18:20PM -0700, xg...@reliancememory.com wrote: > Hello, > > On the recent CentOS 7 clients we brought up, I notice that the default > Kerberos configuration in /etc/krb5.conf (MIT) has set the default cache to > be > > default_ccache_name = KEYRING:persistent:%{uid} >

Re: [OpenAFS] Client update and failover for afsdb hosts

2019-08-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 02:53:13PM -0400, Steve Simmons wrote: > To make a long story short, we're going to be moving the network on which > our afsdb servers reside from one data center to another. Trust me, you > don't want to know the details. This will required a period of time wherein > all

Re: [OpenAFS] iperf vs rxperf in high latency network

2019-08-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:54:44AM -0700, xg...@reliancememory.com wrote: > To make sure I captured all the explanations correctly, please allow me to > summarize my understandings: I think your understanding is basically correct (and thanks to Jeffrey for the detailed explanation!). A few more

Re: [OpenAFS] Ticket cache file permission incorrect of Openafs Client in Scientific Linux 6

2019-07-31 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:47:35PM +0800, huangql wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm stuck with the ticket cache file permission incorrect after users login > farm with Pam module. In this case, users failed to run "kpasswd", "klist" > command with the following error. > > kpasswd: Credentials cache

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.8.2, afsd errors on FreeBSD

2019-04-21 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:02:16PM +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > Hi, > > afsd -debug tells me: > > SScall(339, 28, 6601376)=-1 (78, Function not implemented) > SScall(339, 28, -18944)=-1 (78, Function not implemented) > SScall(339, 28, 1)=-1 (78, Function not implemented) > afsd: Forking rx

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.8.2 , bus error on FreeBSD

2019-04-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
. > But "bus error" occurs when executing the "bos" binary. > > if i understand you correctly the error is in the LWP code. There is a > workaround for this issue only for clang. So if i use clang to compile > the "bos" binary could start without "bu

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.8.2 , bus error on FreeBSD

2019-04-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I don't think that's a requirement, no. (Were the crashes with a gcc-compiled version?) -Ben On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 08:17:44PM +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > Ok so i have to compile OpenAFS 1.8 with clang instead of gcc at FreeBSD ? > > > Am 06.04.19 um 04:33 schrieb Be

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.8.2 , bus error on FreeBSD

2019-04-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 08:39:23AM +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > Hi, > > i compiled afs 1.8.2 on freebsd 11.2. When i want to execute bos command > it shows me a "Bus Error".  If i understand the problem correctly the > problem is that bos wants to access memory which CPU physically cant

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS fails to build on FreeBSD

2019-03-21 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:17:01AM -0400, Michael H Lambert wrote: > > On 15 Mar 2019, at 11:11, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > > > > AFS 1.6.23 fails to build on FreeBSD 11.2 > > > > make tells me: > > > > dont know how to make ./param.amd64_fbsd_112.h. Stop > > > > Could somebody assist me,

Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:20:43AM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:06 AM Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > To be clear, they do share a great bit of code (dafs was not "from > > scratch"), but there are many places that do get differential tr

Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 12:04:04PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:43 AM Harald Barth wrote: > > > However is it still "safe" and "advised" (outside of these > > > disadvantages) to run the old `fileserver` component? > > > > I would recommend everyone to migrate

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions regarding `afsd` caching arguments (`-dcache` and `-files`)

2019-03-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:49:18AM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:39 PM Ciprian Dorin Craciun > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:11 PM Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > > The performance issues could be anywhere and everywhere between the > > > application being used

Re: [OpenAFS] Administrators with a slash

2019-03-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:28:10PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:16 AM Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > To a large extent, getting Kerberos set up is pretty much drop it in and > > switch it on, but there's a lot of flexibility about principal names,

Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 10:25:23PM +0100, Måns Nilsson wrote: > Subject: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for > small cells) Date: Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 10:05:25PM +0200 Quoting Ciprian > Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com): > > Hello all! > > > > I understand

Re: [OpenAFS] new RW root.cell

2019-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:43:03PM -0500, Susan Litzinger wrote: > I got that to work for root.cell and now I find that root.afs is in the > same situation. Does anyone see any harm in doing the same steps for > root.afs? It's current status is: > > [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos volinfo -id

Re: [OpenAFS] new RW root.cell

2019-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Susan Litzinger wrote: > In order to get our current installation in sync, I attempted to create > another RO root.cell on velma in the same partition that the RW is on but I > am unable to do that and get the error that Multiple ROs on a single server >

Re: [OpenAFS] rxperf

2019-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Hi, > > > On 7. Mar 2019, at 09:03, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > i want to test rx performance with rxperf. Where can i get rxperf ? > > it happens to be packaged in SL's plumbing-tools rpm. I think the

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs Fedora Linux 29

2019-03-06 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:35:28AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:05 AM Thomas Lang > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I tried to build new RPMs for Fedora 29 kernels > > > > kernel-4.19.15-300.fc29.x86_64 > > > > and > > > > kernel-4.20.4-200.fc29.x86_64 > > > > from

Re: [OpenAFS] Administrators with a slash

2019-03-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 02:14:43PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 3:35 AM Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > Perhaps the OpenAFS Quick Start UNIX chapters touching the Kerberos > > > integration (http://docs.openafs.org/QuickStartUnix/HDRWQ53.html)

Re: [OpenAFS] Administrators with a slash

2019-03-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:30:41PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:20 PM Bobb Crosbie > wrote: > > I now recall reading about the slash -> dot remapping in the docs, but I > > had forgotten about it. > > > > I think perhaps the tools might have done a better job

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 06:20:02PM +0100, Mike B. Kerber wrote: > Hello openafs-specialists! > > We are currently upgrading our hardware and would like to circumvent the > move of the volumes from old to new servers. > > We would prefer to move the array containing our vicep* partitions from >

Re: [OpenAFS] VLDB corruption cause mount point go to other volume.

2019-02-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 04:58:54PM +0700, Thossaporn (Pommm) Phetruphant wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have 3 vldb/pts servers and 13 file servers in my network. All are on > the same subnet, same location. > We have encountered 2nd time of corrupted VLDB where when 'cd' into a > mount point it

Re: [OpenAFS] question about openafs 1.8.2 on aarch64

2019-02-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
/rpm-tmp.ZbdvPL (%build) > > Any idea what that means? :) > > *** No rule to make target 'param.aarch64_linux26.h', needed by > 'param.h.new'. Stop. > > I am running this inside qemu on a intel dell laptop. > > Thanks a lot for any ideas you might have. I can upload a

Re: [OpenAFS] question about openafs 1.8.2 on aarch64

2019-02-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:11:44AM -0500, Gary Gatling wrote: > Hello. > > When I try to compile openafs on fedora 29 on x86_64 it works fine but when > I try to compile openafs on fedora 29 on aarch64 I get an error: > > mkdir -p /builddir/build/BUILD/openafs-1.8.2/include/hcrypto > mkdir -p

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
kinit comes from krb5, not openafs. -Ben On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:58:22PM -0500, Gary Gatling wrote: > I was able to get 1.8.2 to compile for RHEL 8 x86_64 but "kinit" seems to > be missing. :( ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new 1.8.2 cell: possible protection server issues

2019-02-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 01:56:09PM +, Joseph Timothy Foley wrote: > First of all, thank you Jan for your insight. I had forgotten about the > "udebug" command. I was puzzled because the backup logs mention when an > election takes place, but the others don't! > > I have checked and they

Re: [OpenAFS] Client connection failure: bos failed to contact host's bosserver (communication failure (-1))

2019-01-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
mote servers and clients did not... > > Thank you! > > Simon > > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Kaduk > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 6:13 PM > To: Ximeng (Simon) Guan > Cc: OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Client connection failure:

Re: [OpenAFS] Client connection failure: bos failed to contact host's bosserver (communication failure (-1))

2019-01-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
> they could not manage default MTU of 1500 but has to use 1400 because of the > IPSec requirement... > > Thank you! > Simon > > -Original Message- > From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org On > Behalf Of Benjamin Kaduk > Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 1

Re: [OpenAFS] Client connection failure: bos failed to contact host's bosserver (communication failure (-1))

2019-01-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:40:36PM +, Ximeng (Simon) Guan wrote: > Hello, > > After a power outage on Christmas Eve which forced two database servers and > all the network switches in one of our offices to re-boot, our laptop clients > in that office can no longer connect to one of the AFS

Re: [OpenAFS] Current "balance" practice?

2018-12-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 04:29:29AM +, Chaskiel Grundman wrote: > >> The vsu_ClientInit() signature change was a side-effect of the > >> refactoring of ugen_ClientInit(). No one remembered the possible out of > >> tree usage of vsu_ClientInit(). vsu_ClientInit() is not an exported > >>

Re: [OpenAFS] Current "balance" practice?

2018-11-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 04:51:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 11/27/2018 2:21 PM, Chaskiel Grundman wrote: > > There is another problem beyond 64-bit safety. It appears that the some of > > the openafs devs didn't learn from the project's own experience with the > > linux developers, as > >

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrading to newer OpenAFS procedure docs

2018-11-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:38:16PM -0500, Susan Litzinger wrote: > We are in the process of updating from an older version of OpenAFS, > 1.4.14, to a more recent version, 1.6.16. > > The new 1.6.16 servers have been added to our current cell and we are > moving the volumes from the older servers

Re: [OpenAFS] cache manager timeout

2018-11-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 05:02:10PM +0100, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to adjust the timeout of the cache manager when asking > the next CellServDB or afsdb entry when a server listed in CellServDB / > afsdb is offline so for example the users dont get a long waiting for >

Re: [OpenAFS] Installation and set up guide for Scientific Linux-7.5

2018-11-15 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 03:32:03PM -0500, Adam Jensen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to explore OpenAFS. Does anyone know of an up-to-date > installation and set up guide for SL-7.5? The software seems to be > available: > > [hanzer@moria ~]$ yum list openafs\* > Available Packages >

Re: [OpenAFS] Unexpected no space left on device error

2018-11-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 08:46:28PM -0500, Theo Ouzhinski wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for my previous incorrectly formatted email. > Recently, I've seen an uptick in "no space left on device" errors for > some of the home directories I administer. > > For example, > > matsumoto # touch a >

Re: [OpenAFS] Building 1.8.2 with transarc-paths

2018-11-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:27:09PM -0500, Michael Meffie wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 21:41:06 -0500 > "Prasad K. Dharmasena" wrote: > > > I've been building 1.6.x on Ubuntu 16.04 with the following options and it > > has worked well for me. > > > > --enable-transarc-paths > >

Re: [OpenAFS] Return of the getcwd bug?

2018-11-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 11:55:42AM +, Neil Brown wrote: > If it really is just us that's seeing this. I wonder if it may be related > to our use of automount (autofs). We use automount for various mappings, > but one is to map /autofs/nethome/USERNAME -> to the corresponding /afs/ > path

Re: [OpenAFS] disk cache read error in CacheItems

2018-10-23 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > > On 23. Oct 2018, at 12:16, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > > > >> In the last few days we've observed an increasing number of Nodes, > >> which are no longer be reached and have to be rebooted > >> > >> In the /var/log/messages we

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Security Releases 1.8.2, 1.6.23 available

2018-10-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 01:39:40PM +, Glick, Bill wrote: > Richard’s approach is very similar to how I’ve been building openafs RPMs > recently. > > Historically I used RPMs from the CentOS Storage SIG, but they haven’t > officially supported OpenAFS and aren’t keeping up to date. > >

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs 1.8.x aklog -setpag not working? (Scientific Linux 6.10, Centos)

2018-10-18 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
In particular, the kernel functionality to modify the groups/keyring contents/etc. of the parent process has not been present for a long time. So the kernel version is arguably more relevant than the OpenAFS version. -Ben On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 06:43:25AM -0400, Malato, Andy wrote: > The

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Security Releases 1.8.2, 1.6.23 available

2018-10-15 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 02:14:06PM -0400, Matt Vander Werf wrote: > As far as I know, I don't believe support for RPMs has been dropped. From > my understanding, it's just a matter of who does the release and if they > have access to RPM-based systems to make the source RPM (SRPM) for said >

Re: [OpenAFS] problems with ubuntu 18.04 client

2018-10-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 09:21:31AM +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > > You need to update your apparmor policy to allow rw access to > > /var/cache/openafs/**; accesses are performed by the kernel cache manager > > on behalf of all processes and apparmor's view of the credentials do not > > line up.

Re: [OpenAFS] problems with ubuntu 18.04 client

2018-10-04 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
You need to update your apparmor policy to allow rw access to /var/cache/openafs/**; accesses are performed by the kernel cache manager on behalf of all processes and apparmor's view of the credentials do not line up. MIT's configuration does this as of

Re: [OpenAFS] problems with ubuntu 18.04 client

2018-10-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:55:48PM +0200, martin.flemm...@desy.de wrote: > > Hi ! > > In the last days we're getting more and more messages from users about > having problems accessing their home-directories or subfolder or the hole > user-tree /afs/desy.de/user is missing ... > > Using

Re: [OpenAFS] [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Security Releases 1.8.2, 1.6.23 available --> butc & backup security update question

2018-09-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 04:05:34PM +, Mark Vitale wrote: > > Giovanni, > > > On Sep 13, 2018, at 3:12 AM, Giovanni Bracco > > wrote: > > > I have read about the butc & backup security update. > > > > We run daily the AFS backup and I would like to understand if I need just > > to update

Re: [OpenAFS] volume could not be attached

2018-09-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:14:20AM +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > I want to report my results: > > Salvaging the volume multiple times and switching back to 1.6.22 on the > client and waiting seems to solve the problem for now. > > Are there known problems with the cache manager in 1.8.0 ?

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Security Releases 1.8.2, 1.6.23 available

2018-09-11 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
. These changes also are expected to cause backup(8)'s interactive mode to be limited to only butc connections requiring (or not requiring) authentication within a given interactive session, based on the initial arguments selected. Bug reports should be filed to openafs-b...@openafs.org. Benjamin Kaduk

Re: [OpenAFS] Update time loses 67 seconds on new volume

2018-08-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 02:21:19PM -0600, Kristen Webb wrote: > I found this situation at a client site and though it was worth brining up: > > The client is running openafs 1.8.0-1~ppa0~ubuntu14.04.1-debian, but > I cannot yet vouch for the server versions. > > This is a new volume and here are

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.1 available

2018-07-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
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Re: [OpenAFS] centos 7.5 and enotdir

2018-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 09:25:18AM -0700, Renata Maria Dart wrote: > Hi, we just now are seeing problems with centos 7.5 and Openafs 1.6.8 > where you can cat or run an executable in AFS, but you cannot ls it. > Is this what is being referred to as the enotdir issue that is now > fixed in the

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.1 beta 1 available

2018-07-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
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Re: [OpenAFS] fs newcell / clients CellServDB / adding new db server

2018-06-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:33:24AM +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > > Is there a funtion / service in afs to manage clients cellservdb ? I > understand upclient/upserver are for servers only. The most scalable way seems to be to not use hardcoded CellServDB entries and instead use DNS SRV records

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