Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 28.09.2010 21:49, schrieb Russ Allbery: Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net writes: What's the tried-and-true production-quality Linux equivalent? Anything? Last I read, nothing. There's nothing really equivalent to ZFS. Barring an equivalent, what Linux setup... a) seems most

[OpenAFS] Inquiry For OpenAFS Installation Guide For HP-UX 11.31

2010-10-03 Thread chee.chang.bu
To Whom It May Concern, I am having following problem when follow the guide in http://docs.openafs.org/QuickStartUnix/ch02s07.html. 1) I can't execute cp usr/vice/etc/afs.rc /sbin/init.d/afs as there is no afs.rc in the ../root.client/usr/vice/etc 2) /usr/conf/master.d is not exists in my

[OpenAFS] Vicepa partition over two terabytes

2010-10-03 Thread Joonatan Palmu
Hello, I recently resized my /vicepa xfs-partition over two terabytes (2239707136k) which lead to vos partinfo message: Free space on partition /vicepa: 149840764 K blocks out of total -2055260160. Can you tell me how critical this situation is and which would be the right way to fix it? I run

[OpenAFS] PriorityClass registry setting in OpenAFS 1.4.2.0

2010-10-03 Thread Lobaugh, John
Is the reg setting HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\transarcafsdaeomon/PriorityClass used with version 1.4.2.0 ? We have been struggling with a deadlock issue on two Windows 2003 servers where this setting is not present. The issue is not occuring on some other servers where the setting

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

2010-10-03 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 22:54:25 schrieb Andrew Deason: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:01:08 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 21:30:23 schrieb Andrew Deason: And in particular, NTFS and other journalled filesystems have the advantage of a

[OpenAFS] /vicepa on Linux RAID

2010-10-03 Thread Youssef Eldakar
Should OpenAFS have problems with a /vicepa that exists on a Linux RAID (e.g. /dev/md0) device? I am trying to set up an OpenAFS server on Ubuntu 10.04 (openafs-fileserver/openafs-dbserver 1.4.12+dfs), but when I get to making the root volume (afs-rootvol), the machine crashes, and I am

[OpenAFS] Kernel Panic on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) with Disconnected Mode

2010-10-03 Thread Nicolas Bourbaki
Hi there, I'd like to report a kernel panic when trying to use the disconnected mode of OpenAFS. My current set-up is a one fileserver cell, running the 1.4.x binaries and a Mac OS X Client running the 1.5.x client binaries. I can switch to offline mode and get back online using: fs discon

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS root/admin passwords lost

2010-10-03 Thread Love Hörnquist Åstrand
3 aug 2010 kl. 12:47 skrev Andrew Deason: On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:09:30 -0400 Cory Puckett corypuck...@depauw.edu wrote: it does not recognize kadmin.local as a command and it doesn't recognize -l as an option. I do not know which type of Kerberos I am using, sorry. All heimdal commands

[OpenAFS] AFS mount hangs when internet connection is lost?

2010-10-03 Thread Ryan C. Underwood
I have a system which acts as a NAT router (Ethernet) to share a CDMA modem (USB). The same system runs the AFS client which talks to AFS fileservers over the internet. Occasionally the modem is knocked offline, and when this happens the Linux USB driver resets the modem. Whenever the modem is

[OpenAFS] Kerberos4 needed for windows logon?

2010-10-03 Thread Bo Nygaard Bai
I have recently migrated our old AFS cell from kaserver to Heimdal with kaserver emulation. Yes, I know! This was probably the last cell to do this. Basically i did this: * Make a copy of the kaservers database * Import the database into Heimdal (using hprop | hpropd from the FAQ) *

[OpenAFS] Fwd: afs kmod failure after kernel update

2010-10-03 Thread David Bear
I got a new kernel for CentOS today -- after doing a yum update. Now, openafs fails to start with a message FATAL: count not open /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.11.3 . etc. so I went to update my kernel module with the follwing sudo yum remove kernel-module-openafs-`uname -r` Loaded plugins:

Re: [OpenAFS] VMware and AFS

2010-10-03 Thread Gary Gatling
Hello, Where I work we have 4 AFS servers running inside of VMware guests. The servers are only holding Read Only volumes. On each fileserver there are about 230 volumes. Each VM has 512 MB of RAM. The disk storage is an SMS. The version of Vmware is Virtual Infrastructure 3.5. The Guest OS

[OpenAFS] Request for Assistance with OpenAFS

2010-10-03 Thread Rudolf Bauer E1
Hello, I have a strange problem with OpenAFS client 1.5.77 running on Windows 7. When there is low traffic in AFS the client works fine. In times with more traffic it always hangs up. When hanging it takes pretty high CPU time. When trying to login in this state it shows error code 11862791

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on MAC tokens issue

2010-10-03 Thread Terry Wood
Dear OpenAFS Gurus, We having an issue at the University of Pittsburgh CS Dept. with OpenAFS in our MAC lab. We are running OpenAFS 1.4.12.1 on the MACs. Upon login if one does a tokens command, no tokens are displayed. However, it appears because we can access a protected AFS files that there

Re: [OpenAFS] More Quick Start Woes: afsd: Can't mount AFS on /afs(22)

2010-10-03 Thread Joakim Fallsjö
On 9/29/10 14:29 , Phillip Moore wrote: The Quick Start Guide has clearly atrophied (not just whining -- I *will* patch it... :-) Thanks to the help so far, I've gotten as far as rebooting and trying to mount /afs, but no further. I discovered the CellServDB.dist and CellServDB.local files

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-10-03 Thread alec
On 2010-10-01 11:35, Harald Barth wrote: [chop] Another way to tackle the data corruption issue in the AFS case would be to add checksum functionality to the fileserver backend. In contrast to NFS, we have the advantage that noone reads the data directly from the file system but always

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-10-03 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 1 Oct 2010, at 14:17, a...@setfilepointer.com wrote: Of course, there are lots of other wish-list things for OpenAFS, like my favorite, file encryption in the cache manager (so the files are already encrypted when they arrive at the fileserver.) We had a Summer of Code project

Re: [OpenAFS] Fwd: afs kmod failure after kernel update

2010-10-03 Thread Derrick Brashear
Obviously this message is a couple weeks old now because it sat in the moderation queue, but yes, 1.4.12 includes one. not running 1.4.12? any reason why not? On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, David Bear id...@asu.edu wrote: I got a new kernel for CentOS today -- after doing a yum update. Now,

Re: [OpenAFS] Kerberos4 needed for windows logon?

2010-10-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
The Windows OpenAFS client does not support the rx based kaserver protocol. It only supports the Kerberos v4 protocol which was also supported by kaserver. For Kerberos v5 support, the users must install a Kerberos v5 implementation. The only one supported at present is MIT Kerberos for

Re: [OpenAFS] Request for Assistance with OpenAFS

2010-10-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 9/17/2010 5:05 AM, Rudolf Bauer E1 wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem with OpenAFS client 1.5.77 running on Windows 7. When there is low traffic in AFS the client works fine. In times with more traffic it always hangs up. When hanging it takes pretty high CPU time. When trying to

Re: [OpenAFS] More Quick Start Woes: afsd: Can't mount AFS on /afs(22)

2010-10-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 9/29/2010 9:36 AM, Joakim Fallsjö wrote: Um, wasn't there a magic dependency that the name after the pundsign (#) has to be resolvable FQDN (preferably forward and reverse) to the IP on the left hand side? sanchin.se #Sanchin Consulting AB, Sweden 192.195.148.10

Re: [OpenAFS] /vicepa on Linux RAID

2010-10-03 Thread Harald Barth
Should OpenAFS have problems with a /vicepa that exists on a Linux RAID (e.g. /dev/md0) device? No. ...but when I get to making the root volume (afs-rootvol), the machine crashes,... I suppose this is before the /vicepa even exists, so how should this be an AFS problem? I have btw one

Re: [OpenAFS] Kerberos4 needed for windows logon?

2010-10-03 Thread Harald Barth
This works perfectly for all our Unix variants. But existing Windows clients could not authenticate unless I enable kerberos 4 support and diable preauthentication for all users. Ka was never written for Windows. It had Kerberos v4 from the beginning. It feels like a step backwards on

[OpenAFS] Re: With 1.4.12, can /vicep partitions be plain directories?

2010-10-03 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:52:23 -0400 Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: On 09/28/2010 09:22 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: I wasn't sure what you meant at first, but Russ' messages made me think maybe I do. Do you just mean the fileserver logging ignored partitions (and mentioning

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: With 1.4.12, can /vicep partitions be plain directories?

2010-10-03 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/03/2010 07:48 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:52:23 -0400 Jason Edgecombeja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: On 09/28/2010 09:22 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: I wasn't sure what you meant at first, but Russ' messages made me think maybe I do. Do you just mean the