Re: [OpenAFS] Update squeeze openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports

2013-10-04 Thread Torbjörn Moa
Hi, I don't know if this is at all related, but I vaguely recall having had a similar problem. It turned out that the cell name string in /etc/openafs/ThisCell, as made by the initial installation config, didn't have a line termination, which made the upgrade config script choke when trying to

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: [ Openafs : cache on zfs ]

2013-10-04 Thread milek
-Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info- ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Deason Sent: 03 October 2013 19:17 To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: [ Openafs : cache on zfs ] On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:34:27 +0200 nicolas

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: [ Openafs : cache on zfs ]

2013-10-04 Thread milek
-Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info- ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Deason Sent: 03 October 2013 19:17 To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: [ Openafs : cache on zfs ] On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:34:27 +0200 nicolas

[OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Jeff Blaine
[ For those running ext3/ext4, a question further down for you as ] [ well! ] We're still a 100% Solaris + ZFS file server shop. We're EOLing our Sun SPARC hardware (with tears in our eyes) this year. Before we spend a significant amount

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Dan Van Der Ster
On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you? We stopped because of the memory fragmentation issue. ZFS will use ~twice the arc limit you set, and (in my experience) if you don't set the it wisely (e.g. 20-25% total

Re: [OpenAFS] [ Openafs : cache on zfs ]

2013-10-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 03 Oktober 2013, 19:34:27 schrieb nicolas prochazka: after some tests to use zfs as afs cache, linux kernel tells : BUG : soft lockup - CPU0 stuck for 23s ! [ afs_cachetrim:2908] Any ideas are welcome, You could put the cache on a normal Linux FS inside a ZVOL. See

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 10:31:47 schrieb Jeff Blaine: We're still a 100% Solaris + ZFS file server shop. We're EOLing our Sun SPARC hardware (with tears in our eyes) this year. Before we spend a significant amount of time evaluating this, I figured I'd ask first. Any brief response

RE: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread milek
-Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info- ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Blaine Sent: 04 October 2013 15:32 To: OpenAFS Subject: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers? [ For those running ext3/ext4, a question further down for

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 16:51:28 schrieb mi...@task.gda.pl: See my presentation about it last year. Link? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@altum.de Tel: +49 (0)2471 209385 | Mobil: +49 (0)176 34473913 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Jabber: dirk.heinri...@altum.de

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Oct 4, 2013, at 18:08 , Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 16:51:28 schrieb mi...@task.gda.pl: See my presentation about it last year. Link? http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/eakc2012/ -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany

RE: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread milek
-Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info- ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Heinrichs Sent: 04 October 2013 17:08 To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers? Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013,

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 17:18:24 schrieb mi...@task.gda.pl: http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/eakc2012/slides/AFS_on_Solaris_ZFS.pdf Thanks a lot. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@altum.de Tel: +49 (0)2471 209385 | Mobil: +49 (0)176 34473913 GPG Public Key C2E467BB |

Re: [OpenAFS] Update squeeze openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports

2013-10-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Torbjörn Moa m...@fysik.su.se writes: I don't know if this is at all related, but I vaguely recall having had a similar problem. It turned out that the cell name string in /etc/openafs/ThisCell, as made by the initial installation config, didn't have a line termination, which made the upgrade

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread James E. Dobson
FWIW: I'm using SmartOS (USB device boot) to boot a smart machine (aka a zone) with OpenAFS. Giving up any large amount of space for boot devices on my fileservers seems rather stupid. This has been in production for several months now. Using Debian + zfsonlinux with some success for other

[OpenAFS] Re: Update squeeze openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports

2013-10-04 Thread Andrew Deason
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 09:30:04 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Well, the comment indicates that I knew about this problem at some point, but I see no sign of actually doing what the comment says it should be doing. On the other hand, I can't figure out why that read would fail when

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Update squeeze openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports

2013-10-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net writes: Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Well, the comment indicates that I knew about this problem at some point, but I see no sign of actually doing what the comment says it should be doing. On the other hand, I can't figure out why that read

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-04 Thread Harald Barth
* Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers? Yes. * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you? Long there was fear and doubt, but the (not) quality of HW-Raid solutions and hassle of Linux SW-Raid convinced us that it could not be worse with ZFS. * If you are, how is

[OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-04 Thread Christian
All, we are seeing some weird issues with the windows client (1.7.26, but hat also seen that with previous 1.7 versions). Often, when attempting to write data, my users get a popup box complaining about insufficient space in the target directory. In those cases, writing the data to the RW

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
File a bug report with Microsoft if the problem is experienced when using the explorer shell or applications relying upon the shell api for file access. This is a known bug in the explorer shell and Microsoft has been working on it for more than six months. As with all Windows bugs, a fix is