Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Jack T wrote: RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. On 10/29/05, Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many machines do you have connected using it? I'm only using Arla as a AFS client to access my company's AFS realm from my desktop BSD machine. As far as I can tell, my company's AFS realm is provided using about a dozen Solaris machines. And we have about 1000 employees (with home directories and almost all software served from AFS ) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
On 10/23/05, Jack T wrote: It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. On 10/29/05, Francisco Reyes wrote: Is this something that needs to be fixed in the port? How stable is it? How about performance? I have been looking into AFS and Arla sounds interesting. It's a known Arla issue (the file overwriting thing), but I believe it's too extensive for us to fix it for them. Arla developers would have to work on it. RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. You can configure a low- and high- watermark for the local cache, so once the files are cached, read is instantaneous, and write+close sometimes would pause if my network is slow. RE:Stability, I haven't encountered bugs. But one issue does come up: often, if I do something like cat * or cp * a large number of files, and I hit Ctrl-C, it emitts a scary sounding message to syslog (something like pipe broken due to lack of data or something). I always fear that may corrupt AFS files somehow, so I don't do that anymore. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Jack T wrote: RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. How many machines do you have connected using it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Jack T wrote: On 10/23/05, Jack T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. Is this something that needs to be fixed in the port? How stable is it? How about performance? I have been looking into AFS and Arla sounds interesting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Forrest Aldrich wrote: I've asked the OpenAFS people about a port to FreeBSD. They recently gained a port to OS X, which I understand has a similar/FreeBSD codebase. Please look at Arla. I've been using Arla quite happily on FreeBSD 5.4, and it provides all the AFS functionalities I need. Perhaps it would be sufficient for you? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Jack T wrote: Forrest Aldrich wrote: I've asked the OpenAFS people about a port to FreeBSD. They recently gained a port to OS X, which I understand has a similar/FreeBSD codebase. Please look at Arla. I've been using Arla quite happily on FreeBSD 5.4, and it provides all the AFS functionalities I need. Arla was marked as BROKEN when I last tried to build it under 6X. IIRC, it was marked as broken for 5.4 too. Is there some special secret you could share with us to get an AFS client? I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Jason C. Wells ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
On 10/23/05, Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arla was marked as BROKEN when I last tried to build it under 6X. IIRC, it was marked as broken for 5.4 too. Is there some special secret you could share with us to get an AFS client? I'd love to hear it. It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. So, that means (1) you should install and configure security/heimdal until you are happy with it, and then install arla. And (2) you can upgrade heimdal or arla using portupgrade or any of the automatic port upgrade tools. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
On 10/23/05, Jack T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/23/05, Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arla was marked as BROKEN when I last tried to build it under 6X. IIRC, it was marked as broken for 5.4 too. Is there some special secret you could share with us to get an AFS client? I'd love to hear it. It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. So, that means (1) you should install and configure security/heimdal until you are happy with it, and then install arla. And (2) you can upgrade heimdal or arla using portupgrade or any of the automatic port upgrade tools. I apologize for replying to my own message (thus cluttering the mailing list). But I had a typo: I meant to say that you can NOT upgrade heimdal or arla using portupgrade. (To build it, just edit the Makefile and remove the line that says BROKEN, then you can make install it just fine) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Forrest Aldrich wrote: I've asked the OpenAFS people about a port to FreeBSD. They recently gained a port to OS X, which I understand has a similar/FreeBSD codebase. I have been asking about this for a while. Occasionally an interested party arises. The work remains incomplete. The last rumor I heard was that the server works. The client doesn't work out of the box. I did have the client sort of working once upon a time. That is to say that it was working right up until it panicked. OSX is a different kernel. The kernel is where the difficulty lies. Later, Jason C. Wells ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
