Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client options

2010-12-20 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting omall...@msu.edu: You might be able to use pgina which is a windows login screen replacement. There was someone working on a kerberos plugin for it. I am not sure how far they got. (I haven't tried the 2.x series) I do know I had openldap (with failover) working with it via a

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client options

2010-12-20 Thread omalleys
Quoting Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl: Quoting omall...@msu.edu: You might be able to use pgina which is a windows login screen replacement. There was someone working on a kerberos plugin for it. I am not sure how far they got. (I haven't tried the 2.x series) I do know I had openldap

[OpenAFS] Anyone got a howto on tuning for a high latency network?

2010-12-20 Thread Assarsson, Emil
Hi, I'm struggling with performance issues on a 300ms network link. Do anyone got a suggestion on how to tune this to its best? We have wan accelerators but they do nothing for UDP packages. Currently it takes 7 minutes to transfer a 34M file :-/ I have tried to adjust udpsize and rxpck on the

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client options

2010-12-20 Thread omalleys
Quoting omall...@msu.edu: Quoting Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl: Quoting omall...@msu.edu: You might be able to use pgina which is a windows login screen replacement. There was someone working on a kerberos plugin for it. I am not sure how far they got. (I haven't tried the 2.x series) I

[OpenAFS] Locked Volume

2010-12-20 Thread Angela Hilton
Hi I don't normally make requests of the lists but my colleague (Owen leBlanc) is on leave. I have a volume that has become locked. I'm not certain of the reason for this or even how to trace the problem. There are actually 2 locked volumes volume.name and volume.name.readonly. There is a

Re: [OpenAFS] Anyone got a howto on tuning for a high latency network?

2010-12-20 Thread Harald Barth
I'm struggling with performance issues on a 300ms network link. Do anyone got a suggestion on how to tune this to its best? If you see dropped fragments which trigger resends, try to set RX_MAX_FRAG (the #define in the rx source) to 1. Harald. ___

[OpenAFS] Re: Locked Volume

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:43:24 + Angela Hilton angela.hil...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: I realise that I can issue vos unlock -id volume.name BUT, I am unsure if there are any potential problems that this could cause. A locked volume typically indicates a vos command is running, or a

Re: [OpenAFS] Locked Volume

2010-12-20 Thread Hartmut Reuter
Angela Hilton wrote: Hi I don't normally make requests of the lists but my colleague (Owen leBlanc) is on leave. I have a volume that has become locked. I'm not certain of the reason for this or even how to trace the problem. There are actually 2 locked volumes volume.name and

Re: [OpenAFS] Preferred way to do backup? [Was] Re: best way to control butc tape host process?

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Simmons
On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Matt W. Benjamin wrote: Someone should mention that Michigan has built some kind of infrastructure around incremental volume shadowing, which should be a pretty efficient approach given what OpenAFS gives you to work with... I don't know how you go about

[OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. One possible way I can think of is to use (x)stow, but that would imply a lot of manual work (download, unpack, compile, install to rw volume, xstow, vos release). Does anyone know of

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Booker Bense
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hi, I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. One possible way I can think of is to use (x)stow, but that would imply a lot of manual work (download, unpack, compile, install to rw

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 20.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Booker Bense: My 2 cents... Outside of a few very specialized apps, putting software in AFS is a losing proposition these days. Since local disk space is growing so fast, there really is little justification for not simply using the package management system of

[OpenAFS] Re: Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:46:32 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@altum.de wrote: I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. One possible way I can think of is to use (x)stow, but that would imply a lot of manual work (download,

[OpenAFS] Re: Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:34:23 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@altum.de wrote: Am 20.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Booker Bense: My 2 cents... Outside of a few very specialized apps, putting software in AFS is a losing proposition these days. Since local disk space is growing so fast, there

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Todd Lewis
On 12/20/2010 12:46 PM, Dirk Heinrichs sent: Hi, I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. Probably not what you're looking for, but we have developed a tool in Perl to help with the AFS-specific bits of building and

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Cobaugh
On 2010-12-20 at 19:34, Dirk Heinrichs ( dirk.heinri...@altum.de ) said: Am 20.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Booker Bense: My 2 cents... Outside of a few very specialized apps, putting software in AFS is a losing proposition these days. Since local disk space is growing so fast, there really is

[OpenAFS] State of the Michigan shadow system (long)

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Simmons
Matt Benjamin alluded to this in other email on the info list; given the state of our world it's a good idea to get the idea out to others. The state of our world doesn't mean it's coming apart, just means that we probably aren't going to be working on this for the forseeable future. Dan Hyde

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
We manage 18,000 Unix/Linux machines via configuration files and packages stored in AFS. So far nothing else comes close to scaling as well as AFS. The configuration management system was developed in house. We edit in one place and the information is pulled (from AFS) by the client based on

[OpenAFS] aklog.exe tickling unwanted corp. AD servers

2010-12-20 Thread Jeff Blaine
Windows 7 64-bit (yeah, I know...) OpenAFS 1.5.78 64-bit KfW 3.2.2 with latest released Secure Endpoints NIM I can't figure out why aklog.exe -d -c rcf.our.org -k RCF.OUR.ORG Authenticating to cell rcf.our.org. Getting v5 tickets: afs/rcf.our@rcf.our.org Getting v5 tickets:

[OpenAFS] Re: State of the Michigan shadow system (long)

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:46:38 -0500 Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote: A shadow volume is a read-only remote clone of a primary volume. We had to create some terminology here, and 'primary' is what we called the real-time, in-use, r/w production volume. A remote clone closely resembles a

[OpenAFS] Do Not Get 'Drive Letters' or 'Advanced' Tabs

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Shuma
I am trying to install openafs 1.5.78 on a ThinkPad T400 with XP. Today I tried the 32-bit EXE installer -- but in the past I've tried the others as well (on older versions of openafs). The install completes without error -- but when I open the AFS Client I see only a 'Tokens' tab -- no 'Drive

Re: [OpenAFS] Do Not Get 'Drive Letters' or 'Advanced' Tabs

2010-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 12/20/2010 3:34 PM, Stephen Shuma wrote: I am trying to install openafs 1.5.78 on a ThinkPad T400 with XP. Today I tried the 32-bit EXE installer -- but in the past I've tried the others as well (on older versions of openafs). The install completes without error -- but when I open the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: State of the Michigan shadow system (long)

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Simmons
On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:46:38 -0500 Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote: A shadow volume is a read-only remote clone of a primary volume. We had to create some terminology here, and 'primary' is what we called the real-time, in-use, r/w

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: State of the Michigan shadow system (long)

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 07:00:18PM -0500, Steve Simmons wrote: On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:46:38 -0500 Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote: A shadow volume is a read-only remote clone of a primary volume. We had to create some terminology

[OpenAFS] Re: State of the Michigan shadow system (long)

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:00:18 -0500 Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote: Coming to the more specific vlserver-vlserver-ubiq questions - yeah, that's hard. If all we're thinking of is simple records that could (please, god, please!) be shoehorned into the dbs, those are relatively simple issues.