[OpenAFS] Can't do a vos move

2013-03-25 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
I am running openafs 1.6.2 on Debian squeeze. I have a volume I can't do a vos move from one server to another. It fail with a message that the volume needs a Salvage. But even after two bos salvage in a row, I can't do the vos move. Messages from the vos move: Starting transaction on

[OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Brent Dunlock
Can you run a file server without also running a client? In particular, could you run a server without running the kernel piece (i.e. kmod-openafs... or dkms etc.)? My understanding is that the server does NOT need the kernel piece, but I would like to verify that.

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Derrick Brashear
on solaris with inode fileserver you need the kernel module, for iopen(). otherwise, no kernel extension is required by the server. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Brent Dunlock brent.dunl...@asu.edu wrote: Can you run a file server without also running a client? In particular, could you run

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:56:20PM +, Brent Dunlock wrote: Can you run a file server without also running a client? In particular, could you run a server without running the kernel piece (i.e. kmod-openafs... or dkms etc.)? My understanding is that the

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
david l goodrich d...@dsrw.org writes: Running your servers without the client is (at the last time I checked) recommended. I don't know that I would go so far as to say recommended. Not having the client installed does ensure that you don't have any accidental AFS dependencies, but as long

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread david l goodrich
Running your servers without the client is (at the last time I checked) recommended. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:56:20PM +, Brent Dunlock wrote: Can you run a file server without also running a client? In particular, could you run a server without running the kernel piece (i.e.

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: ... We have AFS clients on all of our servers, including the AFS servers, and avoid unintentional dependencies on AFS (for all services) by just being careful. While I trust you to be careful (and I would trust myself to be

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client? Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:56:20PM + Quoting Brent Dunlock (brent.dunl...@asu.edu): Can you run a file server without also running a client? In particular, could you run a server without running the kernel piece (i.e. kmod-openafs...

Re: [OpenAFS] Can't do a vos move

2013-03-25 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 20130325183340.ga28...@calhariz.com,Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz writes: Starting transaction on source volume 537817505 ... done Allocating new volume id for clone of volume 537817505 ... done Cloning source volume 537817505 ... done Ending the transaction on the source volume

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
You need the kernel extension if you want to store your afs tokens. This really isn't a problem in practice though since I generally just run -localauth when I am root on the server. In message CAMHoRJgX4m=iPKKqRxh63kgmNTZT-Q426DA6v=Dap==nfvv...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick Brashear writes: on

[OpenAFS] Re: Can't do a vos move

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:33:40 + Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz jose.calha...@netvisao.pt wrote: I am running openafs 1.6.2 on Debian squeeze. I have a volume I can't do a vos move from one server to another. It fail with a message that the volume needs a Salvage. But even after two bos