Dear OpenAFS community: I am working on integrating a new Apple XServe into our AFS server install, currently three Linux servers. I've been noticing some very strange things:
(1) I found a null-pointer reference in the *backup* program which I fixed, and will send out a patch in the near future (2) After much hacking, I have the OSX version 1.5.74 working (mostly). Does anyone have *any* experience with using /vicepa on an HFS+ volume? does it need to be case sensitive? I've noticed that every volume I put there eventually eats itself due to corruption, until vos listvol shows it as off-line. (3) That brings me to my third question, does anyone know of any bugs with the butc program on OSX? I just tried to restore a volume (see #2 above), and butc failed to read, giving an error of "Can't read FileBegin on tape". I nfs-exported the backup volume to one of the linux servers, set up another butc coordinator, and am (presently) restoring my volume onto one of the linux servers. So, the evidence suggests that there is a bug in the butc program that only shows up on OSX, and only when reading the file. So, I've noticed that there isn't much in the Google Brain about OSX as an AFS server... are there others? how has your milage varied? -tom --------- Tom Briggs, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
