On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 03:32:03PM -0500, Adam Jensen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to explore OpenAFS. Does anyone know of an up-to-date > installation and set up guide for SL-7.5? The software seems to be > available: > > [hanzer@moria ~]$ yum list openafs\* > Available Packages > openafs-1.6-sl.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-authlibs.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-authlibs-devel.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-client.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-compat.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-devel.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-kernel-source.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-kpasswd.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-krb5.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-module-tools.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-plumbing-tools.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > openafs-1.6-sl-server.x86_64 1.6.23-289.sl7 sl-security > > But I haven't been able to find an accessible set of instructions that > don't require an extensive investment in research, study and translation > to a modern environment. Perhaps if those of you with some experience of > the technology could guide me through an installation and basic > configuration then my notes could be shaped into a guide.
I think that http://docs.openafs.org/QuickStartUnix/index.html is the most current "official" documentation; the source is in git at (e.g.) http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=tree;f=doc/xml/QuickStartUnix;h=9e4fbd3f23b81696d98b1fcb68519364fe365d3f;hb=HEAD if you were interested in supplying patches. (Contributions in other forms, including what you describe below would also be welcome, of course!) > I have an SL-7.5 server with LVM partitions /vicep{a..f} that are > currently 100GB each but there is plenty of storage space available to > expand the capacity of these partitions. I have an SL-7.5 laptop that > can act as a client. I also have two Ubuntu-18.04 machines that could be > clients, and I have a FreeBSD machine but OpenAFS doesn't seem to be > available in its ports system. net/openafs exists, but is on a somewhat older version of openafs that doesn't build on the most current versions of FreeBSD. 1.8.2 should build okay from source, though, IIRC. > Given this basis, it might be possible to experiment with several > desirable scenarios and record a straightforward set of installation, > configuration, and administration instructions for each that would > enable people to assess the technology in a tractable, cost-effective way. > > If this seems reasonable, I would love to get started. That seems reasonable to me. It might be best to work on the initial versions in the wiki (e.g., under https://wiki.openafs.org/admin/index/). Thanks for the offer! -Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
