Can the OpenAFS folks work on kAFS? I was under the impression that they were "tainted" by having read the IBM-provided code.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | The William States Lee College of Engineering 9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 Phone: 704-687-1943 [email protected] | http://engr.uncc.edu | Facebook --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of any of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 704-687-1943. Thank you. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Not until someone adds pioctl support to it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Creedon > Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:13 AM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default > > Would it be appropriate to force a move to kafs now? > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on > behalf of Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 7:31 PM > To: Michael Laß > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Michael Laß wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Am 23.01.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>: > > > > > > Though the patches linked there are sufficient to permit the build > > > to complete, there are some more subtle behavior changes in the > > > kernel in that some of the splice functions will now return > > > ERESTARTSYS if there is any signal pending in the current process. > > > In particular, there are presumed to be codepaths for which we do > > > not have proper error handling, that could lead to data loss. > > > Further analysis is needed (which I am not prepared to undertake at > present). > > > > It seems like you were spot on with this. Some Arch Linux users have > been brave enough to test OpenAFS with these patches on Linux 4.4. One > reported a data corruption issue now. Quote from > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openafs/: > > > > > I tried the patch and I get problems. When I do checkout a different > branch of my software from a git repository things fail and I'm left with a > corrupted workspace. The log files shows the following message: > > > kernel: afs: Lost contact with file server ... in cell ... (code > > > -512) (all multi-homed ip addresses down for the server) > > > kernel: afs: failed to store file (network problems) > > > kernel: afs: file server ... in cell ... is back up (code 0) > > > (multi-homed address; other same-host interfaces may still be down) > > > > > > Guess what error core -512 is… Yep, it’s -ERESTARTSYS. > > > > So there is definitely some additional work required for Linux 4.4. > > Hi Michael, > > Thank you for reporting this back to the list. To the list members: > > I would like to point out that no openafs developer has stated that they > are working on this issue, and it appears that a proper fix will require > modifications through many different parts of the cache manager; that is, > it will be an invasive change that requires substantial development > effort. There is a real risk that OpenAFS will not be able to support > kernels from the 4.4 series and newer -- the openafs package is slated for > removal from Debian testing in just three weeks. > > If there are sites that will be adversely affected by the lack of a > functioning openafs client for linux kernel 4.4 or newer, it will be easier > if they can contribute resources now, rather than months from now when > these kernels make their way into the linux distributions deployed at these > sites. > > -Ben > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
