Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-13 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Kim Kimball a écrit : The backup dump command has -append as an option. Do you know if this was used when the dumps were created? yes it was used, and as I understand, this is what caused the problem as appending to a dump is only supported for tape devices, not files. So the problem arises

[OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote: * What is the underlying filesystem? what features do you have enabled? ( e.g., the output of dumpe2fs -h or equivalent on your system) Ok ... I replaced my beloved XFS by reiserfs (3), created a volume containing 19

Re: [OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll take the chance to ask everyone about their filesystem preferences for (namei-) AFS data partitions. I'm especially interested in things like I used XYfs but moved to YZfs because of XX. Please write about non-linux servers filesystem

Re: [OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Banz
On Jul 13, 2007, at 16:58, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll take the chance to ask everyone about their filesystem preferences for (namei-) AFS data partitions. I'm especially interested in things like I used XYfs but moved to YZfs because of XX. Please

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.4.4 + Kernel 2.6.22.1 compile error

2007-07-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, while compiling the OpenAFS kernel module for the latest Linux kernel, I get the following error (on Gentoo): CC [M] /gentoo/build/net-fs/openafs-kernel-1.4.4/work/openafs-1.4.4/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.22.1-SP/rx_kmutex.o

Re: [OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Stephen Joyce
Frank, I use ext3 with noatime for vice partitions and try to limit servers to less than 2 TB per server for servers housing research data and .5 TB per server for servers housing home volumes. This has worked well so far. Outside AFS, I use xfs for filesystems over 2 TB, but as I said, I

[OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
I looking for a production ready distributed file system. I learned about AFS about 10 years ago in college, but this is the first time I have been able to try and use it. I need to set up several linux servers that will provide data to both linux and windows 2003 client platforms. I have

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Lundgren, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now for the fun questions. Is the windows client suitable for a production environment? Yes, absolutely. The Windows client is, in fact, arguably the best of all of the clients at the moment in terms of stability, although it has some oddities of

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Lundgren, Andrew wrote: Now for the fun questions. Is the windows client suitable for a production environment? yes The windows machines will in turn be serving data to multiple clients. (A proprietary data server that only runs on windows will be feeding the data off box, but the data

RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
Now for the fun questions. Is the windows client suitable for a production environment? Yes, absolutely. The Windows client is, in fact, arguably the best of all of the clients at the moment in terms of stability, although it has some oddities of implementation that we hope to

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Lundgren, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lost that information in a cut and paste. Opps. I was able to get the code to compile on suse by removing some extra ifdefs from the lines 115 and 460 in the file: openafs-1.5.21/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.16.27-0.9-default-SP/osi_vfsops.c I will

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: Which version should I consider using, the latest version that the download link leads (1.4.x) to or the version that the windows download leads to (1.5.x)? I'd suggest using the version the windows download link leads to on windows, and the