[OpenAFS] IP-address-based ACLs not working for a specific host

2009-01-09 Thread Jeff Blaine
We use IP-address-based ACLs on one of our Solaris 9 clients with no problems. This Linux box we're trying to set up the same way is having none of it. The admin work: ADMIN% pts creategroup silkhosts group silkhosts has id -1594 ADMIN% pts adduser X.Y.11.70 silkhosts ADMIN% pts adduser

Re: [OpenAFS] IP-address-based ACLs not working for a specific host

2009-01-09 Thread Kevin Sumner
Btw, that's not to say you're having the same problem here. Sorry if I jumped the gun. You may want to try giving the client a new UUID, esp. if you've cloned the client rather than installing from scratch. Kevin Sumner ITS Enterprise Storage Management University of North Carolina at Chapel

Re: [OpenAFS] IP-address-based ACLs not working for a specific host

2009-01-09 Thread Kevin Sumner
We had a problem with this at the last place I worked -- turned out to be the Linux clients getting an all-zero UUID on startup. When somebody without permission with the same UUID would auth to the cell and start doing file IO, our machines would quit being able to use IP-based ACLs. I

[OpenAFS] Current Limits of OpenAfs ?

2009-01-09 Thread gary mazzaferro
Hi, Is there a place I can find the current file, directory, volume and partition limits for OpenAfs ? I'm not sure which values are current. This is what I found searching: Max Number of Volumes Per Server: ? Max partition size in 1.4.x is 2TB Max partition size in 1.5.x is max signed int64

Re: [OpenAFS] vos split interface question

2009-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Altman
I think there is overall consensus that volume splitting functionality is a good idea. I would like to recommend that we avoid focusing on any particular implementation of the idea at the moment and discuss the use cases for which a user interface and implementations are required. There are two

Re: [OpenAFS] vos split interface question

2009-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com writes: For the afs administrator it is perfectly reasonable to assume a vos command interface which should not be tied to a cache manager. The afs administrator is comfortable working with the concept of volumes. It is therefore not unreasonable

Re: [OpenAFS] Current Limits of OpenAfs ?

2009-01-09 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Esther Filderman mizmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, gary mazzaferro ga...@oedata.com wrote: Hi, Is there a place I can find the current file, directory, volume and partition limits for OpenAfs ? I'm not sure which values are current.

Re: [OpenAFS] IP-address-based ACLs not working for a specific host

2009-01-09 Thread Jeff Blaine
Solution: Wait 3 hours. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] interface for vos split

2009-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
--On Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:32:20 PM -0800 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Steven Jenkins steven.jenk...@gmail.com writes: fs getfid (like virtually all of the fs subcommands) is implemented by marshalling arguments and then making a PIOCTL call into the kernel. Without a cache

Re: [OpenAFS] Current Limits of OpenAfs ?

2009-01-09 Thread gary mazzaferro
Thanks so much !!! I'm evaluating different distributed file systems for a cloud file system Yes, I said it, cloud. I've always admired the Andrew concept from the early/mid 80's. I like that AFS doesn't attempt to wide stripe data across servers. This company's model, they have lots of