On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:09:12 -0500
Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com wrote:
On 2/27/2015 9:51 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
** file server option to force authenticated access to use encryption
The client needs to be told the connection policy prior to connection
establishment (that
In message alpine.gso.1.10.1502251140560.3...@multics.mit.edu,Benjamin Kaduk
writes:
In particular, the threading library used by Linux 2.4, LinuxThreads, is
Not completely accurate -- there are some 2.6 kernel based distributions
with LinxuxThreads (although they hopefully provide NPTL as
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:56:56 +0100
Volkmar Glauche volkmar.glau...@uniklinik-freiburg.de wrote:
strace of a starting server process shows that the old KeyFile and the
rxkad.keytab file are read. The segfault occurs right after closing
the rxkad.keytab file. I'm not sure whether it is an
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:27:27 -0400
Stephen Joyce step...@email.unc.edu wrote:
The openafs.org website (is that now owned by the Foundation?) provides
binaries now. One could argue that it's the same risk[1], but that signing
binaries creates more awareness (but I'm not sure I have the energy
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:17:02 -0400 (EDT)
Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote:
Unfortunately, the master branch differs substantially from the 1.6 branch
in that file (most notably, with Simon's work to allow identities in the
UserList), so a direct cherry-pick fails terribly. The patch would
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:26:36 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
This generally sounds reasonable to me. But I think you want to just
require a dot if the name doesn't exist in the csdb at all, so you can
just put it in the local csdb if you want to use it, without needing to
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:21:15 +0200
GALAMBOS Daniel dan...@dancsa.hu wrote:
root@afstest:~# aklog -d
Authenticating to cell afstest.elte.hu (server afstest.elte.hu).
Trying to authenticate to user's realm ELTE.HU.
Getting tickets: afs/afstest.elte...@elte.hu
Using Kerberos V5 ticket natively
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:33:02 -0400
Dale Pontius pont...@btv.ibm.com wrote:
On 08/05/2014 11:08 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
The complication is that firewalls/NATs only preserve these mappings
for a finite length of time. We attempt to keep them open through
regular fileserver pings, but
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:46:42 +0200
Markus Köberl markus.koeb...@tugraz.at wrote:
On Wednesday 06 August 2014 11:51:42 Jeffrey Altman wrote:
On 8/6/2014 11:05 AM, Markus Köberl wrote:
Should there not be at least one '.' after removing the one from the
begin included to make sense
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:47:28 +
Brandon Allbery ballb...@sinenomine.net wrote:
I'm not sure how to mitigate this, though. Even if you could add a
dummy AFSDB or SRV record to intercept this lookup, last night I
tripped over a similar issue when rebooting my Mac:
http://lpaste.net/108884
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:05:57 +0200
Markus Köberl markus.koeb...@tugraz.at wrote:
On Wednesday 06 August 2014 10:45:56 chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
I started working on a patch to 'fix' this issue:
good to know
Sadly, I got distracted by other work and didn't go any further.
Negative
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:29:47 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
The first time I heard this I was a bit surprised, but that may be just
because I'm very used to the 'aklog' approach and find it intuitive. You
need to tell the kernel what credentials you want it to use for AFS
In message 20140801094039.7390ad15eb9269df241fb...@sinenomine.net,Andrew
Deason writes:
This isn't transparent for the administrator, though. You had to
install an afs-specific pam module, or specify that something runs
aklog; something like that. (And of course, that's only for things that
run
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:07:07 -0400
Todd Lewis todd_le...@unc.edu wrote:
Was there some change in file locking semantics that would make sense of
this? Does this application tickle a corner case error in openafs's file
locking, or does more rigorous lock handling in the newer client expose a
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:25:21 +0200 (CEST)
Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote:
http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=commitdiff;h=e8faeae6dcae0e566de2b21d53d3f78f3cc44e3f
Improve JudgeEntry() detection of orphaned directories to
prevent unintentional deletion of their '.' and '..' entries.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:01:42 +0200 (CEST)
Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote:
Well, I did add a patch like:
Index: openafs-1.6.9/src/vol/vol-salvage.c
===
--- openafs-1.6.9.orig/src/vol/vol-salvage.c2014-06-12
On Tue, 6 May 2014 17:04:25 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
The reason we don't do this now, and the argument for why we should
continue to not do this, is that Windows releases tend to happen much
more frequently than Unix releases (look at 1.6.x vs 1.7.x, though it
In message
caly6xnjvuue3tbhkmcz_tztbjxi-dj+w-kkdvokutwwzk-t...@mail.gmail.com,Jon
Stanley writes:
My suggestion would be to put the CellServDB (and other host-specific
OpenAFS configurations) into /etc.
Maybe /etc/openafs since AFS have quite a few configuration files?
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:03:00 -0600
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
If nobody says anything in response so this, I assume the code will stay
in the tree, unused, for a while, and after some amount of time (maybe
the 2.0-ish timeframe?) the relevant code may be removed from the tree.
Firefox does like to cache things in your profile directory (images, web
pages and such) and over a WAN this might not have the desired effect.
In some cases, it might be faster to simply retrieve these items again
from the Internet instead of going out over the WAN back to your
profile in AFS.
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 20:13:22 +
Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com wrote:
Along the same lines, is anybody using any of the Illumos distributions?
I briefly ran an AFS fileserver on an Illumos x86 distribution
(specifically OpenIndiana) inside a VM. Unsurprisingly it worked.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:32:31 +0800
shuaijie wang wangshuai...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any method to check if a dir resides in AFS volume? Since AFS can
be mounted in any local logical path, simply checking prefix /afs seems
not sufficient for all the cases. So is there any system
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:23:47 +0200
Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote:
Like Jakub, I think parsing the results of vos, fs commands is completely
sufficient.
The pathes to those binaries are not hardcoded, but can be changed quite
easily.
While sufficient, it does create problems
sufficiently high-level to be easily applied and understood
as it follows the same logic as the CLI that admins use with a shell.
kuba
--
On Sep 3, 2013, at 2:13 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
wrote:
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:23:47 +0200
Christof Hanke christof.ha
A caution, our custom (for various technical reasons) krb5 binaries
lacked thread support on Solaris. This will cause spurious crashes.
They were built with the SUNWSpro compiler but we forgot to provide the
-mt option (which basically just does -D_REENTRANT as I recall). I
don't know what gcc
On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:40:14 +0200
Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl wrote:
Hi folks,
Recently I've started using SSDs in both servers and workstations and
this article -- https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization -- offers some
suggestions on which options to use in /etc/fstab, e.g.
On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:09:33 -0400
John Sopko so...@cs.unc.edu wrote:
I believe the tape label command is reporting 2 TB not 2PB:
2147483648 2147483648 x 1k = a 2 followed by 12 digits or Terabytes.
Duh. You're right.
Anyway I did some testing to prove the limit is 2TB's and also to test
On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:56:07 -0400
John Sopko so...@cs.unc.edu wrote:
According to the docs and the output from butc the max tape size
in the /usr/afs/backup/tapeconfig file is 2TB. I set to 8TB and labeled
a tape and it appears to be limited to 2TB as shown below.
There are a few afs_int32's
Ignoring the actual byte-range locking issue, this is actually a
separate issue. OpenAFS does try to rate limit these messages but only
when they come from the same process/pid consistently. Unfortunately,
firefox appears to be threaded (in some fashion) and the multiple
writers keep tripping
In message
CACxoJuWvJcUkE6v3pQ7XDwyNB3iOHGSbvvqr-tbUkKa9USuT=w...@mail.gmail.com,Jonathan
Billings writes:
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote:
Debian has ~always had separate client
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:58:18 -0400
Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote:
Without meaning to insult the average system administrator, installing AFS
client on the servers is a recipe for creeping disaster. It works fine for a
year, then a new guy takes over who doesn't really understand AFS,
In message 20130325183340.ga28...@calhariz.com,Jose Manuel dos Santos
Calhariz writes:
Starting transaction on source volume 537817505 ... done
Allocating new volume id for clone of volume 537817505 ... done
Cloning source volume 537817505 ... done
Ending the transaction on the source volume
You need the kernel extension if you want to store your afs tokens.
This really isn't a problem in practice though since I generally
just run -localauth when I am root on the server.
In message
CAMHoRJgX4m=iPKKqRxh63kgmNTZT-Q426DA6v=Dap==nfvv...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick
Brashear writes:
on
On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:56:16 -0500
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote:
I didn't say all, I said many. And yes, there are many sites on the
internet that cannot be accessed reliably from many OSes that do PMTUD,
particularly if you have some pipe between you and the site that is
smaller than
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:36:18 + (GMT)
Antony Mayi antonym...@yahoo.com wrote:
yes, I meant adjusting client interface MTU. I already tried the -rxmaxmtu
without any success.
you might want to try -rxmagfrags as well. just set this to 1 to
keep afs from trying to send packets that are
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:42:23 -0500
Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote:
Should the blockscanner feature be removed?
it should certainly be considered for removal from 1.7. it can stick
around in 1.6 since removing it wouldn't really be a bugfix.
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:31:46 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
It's possible for a UDP-based protocol to behave very well, and in some
situations exceed TCP. I don't think Rx should be such a protocol, since
I think we should be focusing on making filesystems instead of
In message 20121001044831.gk25...@us.grid.coop,Troy Benjegerdes writes:
Can anyone who has experience migrating to/from OpenAFS from/to anything
else in the last 2-3 years please comment? If there's really something
free, functional, and already included then I'd like to know what the
heck it
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:12:20 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
That could interfere with versions like 1.6.2.1 that sometimes occur.
Conceptually I could imagine something like maybe 1.6.2.0.120917, but I
don't remember what all the various version rules are for deb and rpm.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:39:45 -0400
Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote:
What documentation on libtool/autoconf/etc/whatever should I be looking at
to make '--enable-checking' and '--enable-debug' be the default when I do
'./regen ./configure make check' so I can submit a patch for
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:52 -0400
Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com wrote:
On 9/1/2012 3:03 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
In message 50424587.6010...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes:
The Elders have engaged in discussions with the major operating system
oddly enough (and i am sure this is my fault) i dont scan itunes for my
latest openafs news.
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 21:23:11 -0400
Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure. But version 1.0 (not 1.6) was released in January :)
Derrick
On Sep 1, 2012, at 19:40, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR
In message 5041328c.2090...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes:
On 8/31/2012 5:44 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
Since I can't kinit on my cell phone, how do I prove
my identity?
Assuming your cell phone runs iOS:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/iyfs/id491921617?mt=3D3D8
i would
In message 50424587.6010...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes:
End user organizations have over the last decade asked their storage
vendors to integrate AFS services into the storage products they
purchase. The answer has consistently been 'not interested'.
I suspect the answer that you
Derrick
On Sep 1, 2012, at 14:45, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mi=
l wrote:
In message 5041328c.2090...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes:
On 8/31/2012 5:44 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
Since I can't kinit on my cell phone, how do I prove
my identity?
=20
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:38:43 -0400
Dave Botsch bot...@cnf.cornell.edu wrote:
When I am asked why we are continuing to use AFS in our local department
here at Cornell (the Cornell NanoScale Facility), I only need mention a
couple of features... distributed file system, cross platform, security
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:00:55 -0500
Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote:
1) implement a header-file or library based approach to abstract all
use of IPv4 addresses to an opaque 32 bit identifier.
at this point you might as well convert the ipv4 address to a struct
sockaddr. why invent yet
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:19:09 -0400
Bob Hoffman hoff...@cs.pitt.edu wrote:
On 8/16/12 10:53 AM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
it should recover in 2 hours, which is the vldb refresh time.
Apparently that doesn't work for me. After six days, I was still
getting Connection timed out.
i had the
On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:46:09 -0700
ayvango ayva...@zoho.com wrote:
Do they retain 22 symbols on volumes 8 symbols on usernames limitations?
usernames do not have to be 8 characters but your unix system of choice
might have an 8 character limit for usernames which will make for a
confusing
specifically, your /etc/krb5.conf should have allow_weak_crypto = true
in the [libdefaults] section.
i tried to add this info to the afslore wiki but it didnt seem to take.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:49:53 -0400
Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:42:16 +0100
Lars Schimmer l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote:
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On 2012-03-22 00:53, jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote:
Forgot one thing:
...
For me the slowness in WAN is about latency.
...
I've tried to address
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:57:10 -0600
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
I thought we did keep the *_linux26 sysname, since there are no
significant technical differences between 2.6 vs 3.* so far. What
version and packaging, etc are we talking about here?
the redhat packaging appears
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:16:16 -0500 (EST)
Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote:
(Or should I just not worry about it and assume that any potential
improvements would be lost in the noise?)
other than i believe you still cannot use journaling on the caching
partition, there isnt much to do.
i would hazard that content is more important than 'ease of use'. it
really doesnt matter if you can carry the manual with you if it doesnt
provide any useful help.
there is nothing to prevent the current docbook from being rendered
into quarto (i suspect you meant folio since quarto would be
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:33:01 -0800
Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote:
You can use different local UIDs and AFS PTS IDs and everything will
continue to work properly. AFS doesn't actually care what your local UID
is; it will use whatever your PTS ID is for such things as file
ownership.
In message
2586a1048152be4d861e64a98700ad420548c...@nki-mail.nki.rfmh.org,Lewis, Dave
writes:
These user accounts were created long ago on a server for which the
system daemon UIDs were 100. This is the first system on which we
have seen such a UID conflict.
We're planning to have more
notice when I used 'file' to check those binary files,
more of them are reported as 32-bit. The module itself is 64-bit.)
Regards,
Ting-jen
於 一，2011-08-22 於 13:08 -0400，chas williams - CONTRACTOR 提到：
i believe we have one ppc64 machine running openafs. the biggest deal
was to make sure
i believe we have one ppc64 machine running openafs. the biggest deal
was to make sure that the binaries were built 64-bit. the 32-bit
versions of the ucontext syscalls are broken/incomplete.
just based on your errors though it looks like the afs module isnt
loaded?
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:52:55 -0400
Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com wrote:
As far as I am aware, the 1.4.x exclusive lock processing on UNIX is
broken in that it does not properly ensure that file data modified under
...
the lease, the file server will release the lock. If a file
In message d246ebed-bcc4-488d-846a-b4e80eda9...@desy.de,Peter van der Reest
writes:
PS: I personally do not see the need for a name change on our part, CODA
could have a codabackup?
as you may know, coda and afs share a common ancestry so i am surpised
this is the only name conflict. apparently
In message
cad3fbmwn1fpxwxxc+32p02jfqyxxergszzz2g4gzxq0hmuh...@mail.gmail.com,Ken Dreyer
writes:
The /usr/sbin/backup binary in OpenAFS conflicts with a binary of the
same name in Coda. Before RPM Fusion renames the binary (eg.
backup.afs), do any other distros have existing conventions for
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:26:24 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
chas did:
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2011-June/036262.html
also, while i tinkering with this i went ahead and generated a new
version of the Admin Reference (perhaps the most useful and up to
i spent a little time this week trying to get the conversions to 'look
good' using the latest git doc xml sources. the pdf's are there for
comparison so if you see something odd you can check to see if it is a
conversion artifact. someone other than me should examine these things
closely to
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:21:40 -0500
David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote:
The .epub looks great on my Nook, iPad, and iPhone. Thanks. That's way
useful.
i had a little time this morning so i tried calibre instead of
mobipocket reader to do the epub conversion. i also started with the
git
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:51:48 -0700
Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote:
Starting with the HTML docs is probably not a great idea, since those are
always generated from other stuff. The approach of using Docbook tools to
generate ePub is probably best for the manuals. For the man pages, I
On Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:34 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
Also, Jeff, if you want a quick workaround, you can change -O to -O2 or
just leave out the -O option. I think changing the value of KERN_OPTMZ
in src/cf/osconf.m4 should be enough...
the studio compilers, if i
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:25:00 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 18:44:24 -0400
Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote:
or, for now, just replace that with
memset(dirHeader-hashTable, 0, NHASHENT*(unsigned short));
and move along?
Yeah but, I'd
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:50:58 -0500
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 07:32:32 -0400
chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote:
the studio compilers, if i recall correctly, prefer -xO2. -O2 just
gets passed to the linker (or something like
In message 87oc2hmo4d@windlord.stanford.edu,Russ Allbery writes:
I'm not sure about the most recent, but older Kindles absolutely will not
handle ePub. Also, if the goal is to get it into the Amazon store, I'm
pretty sure it's going to have to be in MOBI format.
they saw they dont. but...
me think that there
is a reserved character in the index references/links (like # perhaps)
In message 4de6c351.8020...@qualcomm.com,Patty O'Reilly writes:
Nice! Works great.
On 6/1/11 3:12 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
In message87oc2hmo4d@windlord.stanford.edu,Russ Allbery writes
On Fri, 06 May 2011 17:18:40 +0200 (CEST)
Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote:
As we have infinband stuff here, we have some ofed related rpms
installed. One of these installed an exportfs.ko into
/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.pdc1/updates/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko
which was effectively
In message b6016d7f-75e7-4660-8190-016d9a9b2...@inf.ed.ac.uk,Simon Wilkinson
writes:
On 5 Dec 2010, at 02:55, Derrick Brashear sha...@dementia.org wrote:
We tell you that you can, and how, to disable this
Perhaps we should ship with it disabled by default?
probably. especially since this
In message 20101205153716.d3fc0661.adea...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason
writes:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:05:20 -0500
Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote:
Perhaps we should ship with it disabled by default?
probably. especially since this is one of those lesser known
In message 20101203155612.e7a694f5.adea...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason
writes:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:00:37 -0500
chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:53:08 -0600
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
Why lose the logs? It's already annoying
In message
aanlktikdcjrjoufppasnubb_+2tlos2z_27afec9k...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick Brashear
writes:
you can, of course, bos getlog a syslog file. for that matter, if you
strip the niceties that
you cant getlog my syslog when it is on another machine.
bos getlog prepends, you can bos getlog an
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:33:07 -0500
Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu
wrote:
Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com writes:
My one concern to switching to something like syslog by default is
that bos getlog will
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:22:11 -0500
Michael Meffie mmef...@sinenomine.net wrote:
The key point is that currently some sites may be relying on
weekly restarts and the current rename from FileLog to FileLog.old
to avoid filling a disk partition. I think a more sensible approach
in long term, for
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:53:08 -0600
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote:
Why lose the logs? It's already annoying enough when I get told a vos
release failed and there's no record of the vos output. That's
going to make my life difficult when someone can't remember when or
what they
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:50:36 -0500
Michael Meffie mmef...@sinenomine.net wrote:
I propose in some future release of openafs this behavior be
deprecated and, by default, the server would simply append to the
already existing log file on startup. Also, each server would handle
the HUP signal to
In message aanlktim1bhyr=jkj-fahsckrovqoqvc=_v7a+0ynb...@mail.gmail.com,Ken
Dreyer writes:
I'm looking at tidying and standardizing my $PATH across systems, and
I had a question about the /usr/afsws path. Is the /usr/afsws
convention considered deprecated?
i would guess that it is but we still
In message
aanlktikjjj16ckewiu9nyvygozvzzhqdoujtuxsnk...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick Brashear
writes:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Phillip Moore
yeah. thing is, by and large most people don't need that either which
is why it still works that way. we've been improving.
i suspect openafs should be
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:01:49 +0200
Lars Schimmer l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote:
Just want to ask - XFS repair or XFS check. Last time I tried it on
linux I got a out of memory error (with 24GB memory available).
AFAIK it does need a really large memory to check big partitions with
lots of
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:19:51 +0200
Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de wrote:
Hi Jeff,
On Sep 29, 2010, at 22:18 , Jeffrey Altman wrote:
RAID is not a replacement for ZFS. ZRAID-3 protects against single
bit disk corruption errors that RAID cannot. Only ZFS stores a
checksum of
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:03:40 -0400
Tom Keiser tkei...@sinenomine.net wrote:
RAID-5 only provides a single parity bit. Unfortunately, this means
that it can merely detect a single bit parity error; it cannot correct
the error since there is insufficient information to prove which of
the
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:35:23 -0400
Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote:
Yep, we're pretty much a 100% ext3 shop. We keep a close eye on other
things, and zfs has been looking more and more interesting. But given
the uncertain state of its future (see elsewhere in this thread) our
caution level
In message 20100707005602.v77jd7w14tcgw...@www.umrk.nl,Jaap Winius writes:
For example, if it were possible to change the properties of a volume
so that only the ACL of the volume's root directory would apply to all
of its subdirectories, then in such cases there would never be any ACL
In message 2f81c559c509715a17e57...@lysithea.fac.cs.cmu.edu,Jeffrey Hutzelman
writes:
No; it's much worse than that. Suppose you upgrade to a new version of
OpenAFS and find there's a serious bug in the fileserver, or ubik, or rx.
Or you missed some crucial process step and so it wasn't OK to
In message 20100618093541.46bc13bc.adea...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason
writes:
It's pretty easy to make a supergroup if it's turned on; you may not
realize it's a specific feature to turn on. Once you have done so, your
ptdb is now incompatible with ptservers without supergroups enabled.
this
In message 878w8jclb5@windlord.stanford.edu,Russ Allbery writes:
POD is capable of including enough information that you could get them
back, and most of the high-level references are still there. The
low-level references (to specific sections of particular pieces of
documentation) would need
In message xuu2hbozn7np@gentzen.megacz.com,Adam Megacz writes:
to UNIX for a moment, if we assume that there is a local userid for
every PTS identity, are PAGs really necessary? Even for something like
because sometimes i am me, and sometimes i am not (root). however,
i would always like to
In message db6e3f111003011448s21332fe7y1c37408c9be37...@mail.gmail.com,Derric
k Brashear writes:
because sometimes i am me, and sometimes i am not (root).
There are probably psychiatrists who can help you with that.
so i hear but we like it this way.
In message 85352d17-0409-4821-9416-9a1348e8b...@inf.ed.ac.uk,Simon Wilkinson
writes:
significant number of posters advocating removing the 'change the PAG
of my parent' feature, which is used by aklog -setpag, amongst others.
this feature is un-unix like and should go away. children should
In message 4b29ca19.7070...@inbox.com,Chaz Chandler writes:
Speaking of which, might now be the time to suggest that 1.6 default to
namei on IRIX? Especially since inode is very broken (at least in 1.4,
haven't tested 1.5 yet) on IRIX and the change is more or less
i think IRIX is dead enough
In message 4b2970ed.2020...@rampaginggeek.com,Jason Edgecombe writes:
I would prefer that services not change their configurations without my
explicit consent. That said, I think that refusing to start with an
invalid config and printing the correct one to the console and the logs
is a good
In message 4b2a4ef1.1060...@inbox.com,Chaz Chandler writes:
I think you could argue that from a business perspective, but let's not
pull the rug out from under it prematurely. It's working great now.
Derrick and others just completed a good bit of work in 1.5 to allow it
fine. but that doesnt
In message 4b220a1a.8080...@pclella.cern.ch,Rainer Toebbicke writes:
With the current dir package this means a chunk size of 2MB. Assuming the
unit of transfer is still chunksize and you do not intentionally fill chunks
partially you'd give up a valuable tuning parameter.
hmm... well it is a
In message 4b20b344.5010...@pclella.cern.ch,Rainer Toebbicke writes:
Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
i still wonder if the cache manager shouldnt open a single file (sparse
mode) and just seek/read/write. this would solve a couple of potential
problems with other filesystems as well
In message db6e3f110912100538i4f7ef40fy82acdc1040463...@mail.gmail.com,Derric
k Brashear writes:
Allowing N chunks with M chunksize configured, where N*M is greater
than the cache size you configured seems entirely reasonable: not
every chunk will be filled.
but they could be. at which point afs
In message 4be2a1da-0c38-4313-9e2d-c39965b4c...@inf.ed.ac.uk,Simon Wilkinson
writes:
Fedora 12 has IMA enabled in its kernel by default. OpenAFS can't
currently co-exist with IMA, because IMA fundamentally breaks the core
interface that OpenAFS uses it access its disk cache. There is ongoing
In message c621e1b9-627d-4f55-9db7-ac2cd385b...@inf.ed.ac.uk,Simon Wilkinson
writes:
i still wonder if the cache manager shouldnt open a single file
(sparse
mode) and just seek/read/write. this would solve a couple of
potential
problems with other filesystems as well.
Better still
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