Re: [OpenAFS] AFS cell without AFSDB?

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Vitale
On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: (Although I would think it'd check for the correct SRV RRs first and AFSDB only as a fallback.) This is indeed what the code does. -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] DAFS Salvager failure

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Vitale
I have been working on what seems to be a similar report to yours: OpenAFS 1.6.1, RHEL6, crashed fileserver with SEGV, FSYNC seems implicated. However, you are DAFS and my report is non-DAFS. Would you be willing to send me your logs and cores? Thanks, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net

Fwd: [OpenAFS] switching to DAFS and -showmounts

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Vitale
master, then make an alias or copy src/vol/volinfo to volscan. After you have a volscan you can invoke it like this: # sudo volscan -find mount Hope that helps, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] switching to DAFS and -showmounts

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Vitale
On May 31, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com wrote: On 5/31/2013 9:45 AM, Mark Vitale wrote: forgot to copy the list on my reply to Ralf… On May 31, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Brunckhorst, Ralf ralf.brunckho...@hp.com wrote: With dasalvager: # /usr/afs/bin/dasalvager

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about multihoming servers

2013-09-25 Thread Mark Vitale
Jeff is describing - the ability to not only tolerate the presence of multiple interfaces without breaking, but actually exploit the increased potential throughput. -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [OpenAFS] wiki.openafs.org web editing reenabled

2014-05-28 Thread Mark Vitale
On May 28, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: ... (wiki) edits can now be made equally from the web and through gerrit. Thank you, Ben! -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Metrics on the cell

2015-03-16 Thread Mark Vitale
fileserver -peers -noconns -onlyport 7001 | awk ... Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris AFS client down - why does this happen

2015-10-28 Thread Mark Vitale
nunix: [ID 282658 kern.notice] Copyright (c) 1983, > 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. > > Sometimes the system reboots immediately and sometimes the system stays in a > state where all attempts to access AFS end with I/O

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris AFS client down - why does this happen

2016-01-25 Thread Mark Vitale
y to be sure would be to look for the panic messages in your syslog. If you still have those (from back in October), it would be helpful to see them. Regardless, I'm able to duplicate the problem quite easily. I've opened https://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=132689 and I am working on

Re: [OpenAFS] broken callbacks

2016-04-20 Thread Mark Vitale
nblks). This routine also increments the GotSomeSpaces counter, which is in the same xstat_fs_test collection as nCBs, nFEs, and nblks. If you are running close to the edge on callbacks, you should definitely track that counter, and ideally you want it to always remain zero. Regards, --

Re: [OpenAFS] some older openafs-client versions have started failing

2016-07-15 Thread Mark Vitale
nel level. However, this does NOT explain your report of no problems with OpenAFS 1.6.17 and 1.6.16. Could you please confirm that they are working fine? Regards, -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org htt

Re: [OpenAFS] some older openafs-client versions have started failing

2016-07-15 Thread Mark Vitale
On Jul 16, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, Mark Vitale wrote: > >> >> On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:39 PM, Chad William Seys <cws...@physics.wisc.edu> >> wrote: >>> I found the break point in when openafs

Re: [OpenAFS] vos dumps to S3 via S3 Storage Gateway?

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Vitale
er details or OpenAFS documentation I can point you to. — Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.18.3 client crashes Solaris 11.3 x86 platform on reboot

2016-10-12 Thread Mark Vitale
label SRXAFSCB_GetDE. Thanks, — Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.18.3 client crashes Solaris 11.3 x86 platform on reboot

2016-10-14 Thread Mark Vitale
> On Oct 13, 2016, at 7:16 AM, Karl Behler <karl.beh...@ipp.mpg.de> wrote: > > On 12.10.16 22:37, Mark Vitale wrote: >> I don’t need to see all the output, just from label >> SRXAFSCB_TellMeAboutYourself to label SRXAFSCB_GetDE. Thanks, — Mark Vitale >> Si

Re: [OpenAFS] getcwd() error for RHEL 7.4 kernel

2017-12-01 Thread Mark Vitale
irm it fixes the getcwd issue > for us as well. Please try: https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/12796/ and let me know how it works for you. Thanks, — Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates :��T���)b� b�өzpJ)ߢ�^��좸!��l��b��(���~�+Y���b�ا~�~ȧ~

Re: [OpenAFS] getcwd() error for RHEL 7.4 kernel

2017-11-19 Thread Mark Vitale
em. I am working on a patch and will submit it to gerrit when it passes my tests. Thank you to everyone who shared debugging and test results. I will post here again when the patch is available in gerrit, so that anyone who wishes may test it in their setup. Regards, — Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates

Re: [OpenAFS] getcwd() error for RHEL 7.4 kernel

2017-10-30 Thread Mark Vitale
est system, so I don’t expect I will need anything more from you for now. Thank you for all you provided, and we will keep you informed if there is any progress. Regards, —- Mark Vitale OpenAFS release team

Re: [OpenAFS] getcwd() error for RHEL 7.4 kernel

2017-12-20 Thread Mark Vitale
patch. Instead, I’ll wait until the master patches are merged, then produce a proper 1.6.x backport from that. Regards, — Mark Vitale

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.8.0: Cache inconsistent after vos release

2018-05-25 Thread Mark Vitale
efinitely seeing this also. I was able to reproduce this today and have submitted a patch for review: https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/13090/ This patch works in my testing. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] getcwd() error for RHEL 7.4 kernel

2017-10-20 Thread Mark Vitale
level and OpenAFS release, so any tips on what triggers this for you would be helpful. Also, have you tried falling back to OpenAFS 1.6.20.2 or earlier? If so, what were your results? If not, could you try it and let us know? Thanks, — Mark Vitale OpenAFS release team

Re: [OpenAFS] question about error on i686 arch

2018-08-03 Thread Mark Vitale
ceding messages from AFS)? If you find one, please provide the relevant bits here. Or even better, please open a ticket at rt.central.org by sending an email to openafs-b...@openafs.org. Tnanks, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-inf

Re: [OpenAFS] question about error on i686 arch

2018-08-03 Thread Mark Vitale
hat you are using -memcache. Could you please also provide your afsd startup options and cache configuration? Thanks, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS cache configuration

2018-04-16 Thread Mark Vitale
5*(cacheBlocks 100/ i 1024) = 1464 so cacheFiles remains 31250. You may find the following commands useful when tuning the cache: cmdebug -cache # gives the current cache configuration xstat_cm_test 2 -onceonly | head -n 35 # gives live cache statistics Regards, -- Mark Vital

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem starting dafileserver on 1.8.2

2018-10-25 Thread Mark Vitale
urse), you should be able to start the fileserver. I will submit a patch for this bug later today. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

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

2018-09-13 Thread Mark Vitale
'butc' does not do this by default. Instead, it forces the operator to specify one of the following options: -localauth All butc RPCs require superuser authentication. This option must be run as root, and server key material must be present. -allow_unauthenticated All butc RPCs remain unauthenti

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

2018-09-13 Thread Mark Vitale
I think it's fine if you just update your backup components for now. However, since some of these vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable, I recommend updating the rest of your cell to the current release as soon as you can manage it. Regards, -- Mark Vi

Re: [OpenAFS] kernel 5.0.3 openafs issues in fedora linux

2019-03-25 Thread Mark Vitale
rror? This should do the trick: http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=commit;h=e7d8dc01cc1f0592eaecea5b87990097e9e59b88 Or you could try out OpenAFS 1.8.3-pre1, which includes this patch (and others for Linux 5.0 kernels as well). Regards, -- Mark Vitale m

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

2019-02-21 Thread Mark Vitale
t a live VLDB? Do the VLDB entries for the apparently corrupted volumes change frequently? Are you taking any steps to ensure the VLDB is not changing when you back it up? Could you provide more details about the steps you take to recover your VLDB? Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net

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

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Vitale
Ciprian, > On Mar 8, 2019, at 2:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:11 PM Mark Vitale wrote: >> The -dcache option for a disk-based cache does set the number of dcaches in >> memory. >> It has a minimum value of 2000 and max

Re: [OpenAFS] Documentation for `afsd` argument `files_per_subdir` is wrong (out of sync with the implementation)

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Vitale
later, it was changed to a scalar, but the documentation was never changed to match. So this is a documentation error. I've opened a ticket for you: https://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=134915 Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net _

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

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Vitale
ctory object is always stored in a single Vn file, even if the directory object size exceeds the chunksize. > > * by explicitly setting `-files` one can set a limit to the maximum > number of actual AFS files to cache; (i.e. if all files are smaller >

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

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Vitale
because they will be > cached up to `-blocks`.) Correct. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

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

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Vitale
> On Mar 8, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:30 PM Mark Vitale wrote: >> But now on more careful reading, I see this only applies when -dcache has >> not been explicitly specified. >> (Which, to be fair, is

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

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Vitale
ileserver saves the state of all active hosts and all callbacks at shutdown. If restart occurs within 30 minutes, this state file is restored so that callbacks don't need to be revoked; thus clients don't need to prematurely refetch status or data. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.X token problems

2019-05-22 Thread Mark Vitale
Florian, > On May 22, 2019, at 5:39 PM, Mark Vitale wrote: > > On May 22, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Mark Vitale wrote: >> >> >> Before we go any further with that, I would like you to verify that all the >> OpenAFS components are the same version. Please provide

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.X token problems

2019-05-22 Thread Mark Vitale
ify that all the OpenAFS components are the same version. Please provide the output from the following commands: - rxdebug 7001 -version - strings $(which aklog) | grep OpenAFS - strings $(which tokens) | grep OpenAFS Thanks, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net :��T���)b� b�өzpJ)ߢ�^��좸!��l��b��(���~�+��Y���b�ا~~ȧ~

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.X token problems

2019-05-22 Thread Mark Vitale
Florian, > On May 22, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Mark Vitale wrote: > > > Before we go any further with that, I would like you to verify that all the > OpenAFS components are the same version. Please provide the output from the > following commands: > - rxdebug 7001 -versio

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.X token problems

2019-05-23 Thread Mark Vitale
Florian, > On May 22, 2019, at 8:00 PM, Mark Vitale wrote: > > I've begun working on a fix and will notify you when it's available on > gerrit.openafs.org for review. I ended up with three patches: remote: https://gerrit.openafs.org/13597 pioctl: limit fruitless token sea

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

2019-11-20 Thread Mark Vitale
t. Is there a reason you need to keep the fileserver threads so low? Would it be possible for you to increase it dramatically (perhaps 100) and try the test again? Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

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

2019-11-20 Thread Mark Vitale
obtain more information from your site, or if you could narrow the problem down to a simpler test case. Do you have FileLogs and/or fileserver audit logs for the time in question? Thanks, -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates 20 Years of Customer Success

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

2019-11-19 Thread Mark Vitale
e hang is occurring: # echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger This will produce backtraces in the syslog. Either way, whatever you find in syslog, if you could put it in a paste site of your choice, then post the link here, that would be helpful. Regards, -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates 20 Years of Custom

Re: [OpenAFS] another kernel panic running 1.8.4 on Linux 3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64

2020-02-21 Thread Mark Vitale
which has been merged for 1.8.x and is scheduled for inclusion in 1.8.6 (see https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14070/2/NEWS). Regards, -- Mark Vitale OpenAFS release team ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mai

Re: [OpenAFS] Zero-byte file in cache

2020-01-12 Thread Mark Vitale
also see a few candidates that have been merged to master but haven't yet been ported to 1.8.x: 13436 afs: Check dcache size when checking DVs 13435 afs: Introduce afs_IsDCacheFresh Regards, -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates 20 Years of Customer Success __

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

2020-04-25 Thread Mark Vitale
Even though I can reproduce this at will, I'm having difficulties using systemtap to find out exactly what is wrong. I'll keep you informed of my progress. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAF

Re: [OpenAFS] Any xstat tools?

2021-03-29 Thread Mark Vitale
_peer. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] Any xstat tools?

2021-03-29 Thread Mark Vitale
resettable (via rxstat_clear_process). - they support both process (server) and peer (client) granularity Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] "failed to store file"/"Lost contact with file server

2021-02-25 Thread Mark Vitale
on This is not included in 1.8.7, but is scheduled for 1.8.8. Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

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

2021-09-10 Thread Mark Vitale
ion $ rxdebug 7001 -version Does the problem resolve iteslf if you retry after: # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Thanks, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] kernel 5.14 RIP with openafs 1.8.8

2021-10-04 Thread Mark Vitale
oesn't contain any AFS code either, so no clues there. Is it possible your OpenAFS kernel module wasn't rebuilt for this kernel? (mismatched kernel version) Regards, -- Mark Vitale mvit...@sinenomine.net ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list Ope

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs-server does not recover from crash

2022-03-09 Thread Mark Vitale
1.8.2-1-debian 2018-09-12 Unfortunately this version of OpenAFS has the Rx CID bug: http://openafs.org/frameset/dl/openafs/1.8.7/RELNOTES-1.8.7 This bug may only become apparent on the first restart after Jan 15, 2021. You must upgrade all your clients and servers

Re: [OpenAFS] a question about CellServDB and DNS alias

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Vitale
o the IP address specified in the first token. (src/WINNT/afsd/cm_config.c) Regards, -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] vos release stops at 2^64 packets sent.

2022-06-27 Thread Mark Vitale
n, my guess is > 5TB was transferred. > Is this affected by volser buffer sizes ? I don't know the answer to this off the top of my head; perhaps some others on the list can chime in. Or I may think of something else after I sleep on it. Rega

Re: [OpenAFS] vos release stops at 2^64 packets sent.

2022-06-28 Thread Mark Vitale
> On 27 Jun 2022, at 11:14 PM, Mark Vitale wrote: > > > >> On 27 Jun 2022, at 3:18 PM, Richard Brittain >> wrote: >> >> I know this is a long shot, but I've got a no-quota volume of approx 6TB, >> and I'm trying to replicate it. It appears

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

2022-09-08 Thread Mark Vitale
ack load. Let me know if you want more details on that. Hope that helps, -- Mark Vitale Sine Nomine Associates ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info