Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Getting started with OpenAFS

Am Freitag 30 April 2010, um 17:00:54 schrieb Andrew Deason: Traditionally, the convention of paths goes something like this: /afs/cellname/volume for the RO path, and /afs/cellname/.volume for the RW path. (And /afs/.cellname/ provides an RW path for anything). But AFAIK the

Re: [OpenAFS] Shared r/w access to numerous sqlite databases: an appropriate application for AFS?

Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 13:22:09 schrieb Todd Lewis: I happen to be facing exactly that same problem at the moment, so I'm hopeful (doubtful, but hopeful) someone will step up and prove me wrong. Well, I won't. But why don't you both simply install a real Db server, like PostgreSQL, for

Re: [OpenAFS] about failover - 2 servers (one master one replicas) - a bit long

Am Montag 22 März 2010 10:43:51 schrieb Vladimir Konrad: Would you please give me few pointers on what to try to have AFS clients work even if the B goes down? Create r/o replicas on A (and on the same vice partition), too. The problem with your setup is that OpenAFS clients use the r/o path

Re: [OpenAFS] Filesystem Types FSCK

Am Montag 22 März 2010 15:57:23 schrieb J: So I'm wondering whether you have any advice or comments about any of this. You could use XFS, it doesn't even have fsck (it's a dummy, to make distribution's boot scripts happy). Bye... Dirk ___

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

Am Sonntag, 12. April 2009 10:01:22 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Amongst UFS2, EXT3, and ZFS, which is most recommended for use as a backing store for AFS? UFS2 and ZFS are Solaris, EXT3 is Linux. What is your server OS? Which for the AFS client cache? That depends on your client OS. I am

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

Am Sonntag, 12. April 2009 18:15:59 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: So your server OS is Solaris No. My server OS is debian. My client OS are FreeBSD, debian, XP. Your assumption that file system suitability is determined purely by OS is limited. YMMV, but I would only use

Re: [OpenAFS] encrypted volumes

Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 02:09:09 schrieb David Bear: Has there ever been much discussion on created encrypted volumes? These would work like a local encrypted file system - without they key, they are useless. I'm thinking that you might need an fs setkey or something like that to

Re: [OpenAFS] encrypted volumes

Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 19:12:34 schrieb David Bear: well -- I don't know about truecrypt -- and doubt that windows, mac and linux de jour does as well. Well, they do. AFS volumes represent a very convenient way to have multiple offsite backups of stuff -- and would be a great platform

Re: [OpenAFS] encrypted volumes

Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 21:45:02 schrieb Christof Hanke: Sorry, but I think you see this from the wrong angle. The point I think here is to protect sensitive data even against admins, the guys who can read /vicep* anyway... What prevents an admin from loggin in on the client machine to

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux kernel and corresponding OpenAFS upgrade packages

, they decided to not install the AFS packages above, because they did not know if those were the correct packages for OpenAFS. You don't need the kernel modules at all for server machines. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie question.

Max Lock schrieb: * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml Please note that this is outdated since years. Better look at the HowTo on gentoo-wiki.com, but make sure to read the Discussion tab, too. Bye... Dirk ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie question.

Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Max Lock schrieb: * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml Please note that this is outdated since years. Better look at the HowTo on gentoo-wiki.com, but make sure to read the Discussion tab, too. Just found out that the old HowTo on gentoo-wiki.com has been

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Client login via KDM

Am Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008 schrieb Ralf Hornik Mailings: are there any known issues regarding Gnome/KDE login Manager getting AFS tokens? I can login perfectly using ssh, or console, get AFS Toks and my home. But using GDM/KDM it tells me Can't update authorization file, or Can't chdir

Re: [OpenAFS] Weird client behaviour with openafs 1.4.5

Am Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008 schrieb Steffen Weißgerber: -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- -END PGP MESSAGE- Sure. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [OpenAFS] salvaging volumes destroys data

-client-to12112808.html HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733

Re: [OpenAFS] File systems on Linux, again.

Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007 schrieb ext John Lockard: I'm curious about those using ext3...  Are you running ext3 with or without journaling? w/o journaling it's called ext2 :-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0

Re: [OpenAFS] What's the problem with reiser

system. At all. OK. replase reiser with xfs, jfs, whatever. I guess the real question was: What's the reason why one should not use other filesystems than ext2 for the cache partition on a Linux client? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs partition - how to increase

Am Donnerstag 29 November 2007 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: I'd like to resize (enlarge) the ext2-partition on which e.g. /vicepa is mounted. Does it use the additional space or is there any danger OpenAFS gets confused? It will happily use the additional space. Bye... Dirk

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

a sudden death last night while compiling an older kernel for testing this issue. So I'm out of this for now :-( Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Russ Allbery: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's neither in the src nor in the doc tarball, so it's no wonder that Gentoo doesn't install it. Where can I find it? It's generated during the build process in src/afs/afszcm.cat and installed

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. Bye... Dirk AFS Trace Dump - Date: Tue Sep 25 21:55:33 2007 Found 1 logs. Contents of log cmfx: time 888.201037, pid 0: Tue Sep 25 21:54:32 2007 raw op 701087822,

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Russ Allbery: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. It looks like you don't have afszcm.cat installed where fstrace expects

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Russ Allbery: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. It looks like

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

. Both are mountpoints with similar ACL and permissions. I'd like to point out that on my machine not only mountpoints are affected but directories and files as well. Is this the same on your's, Dirk? Yes, it is. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Hello, since I got a mail from another person who had this same problem, I would like to follow up on this. Here's what I wrote back in august: I'm currently facing strange behaviour on one client machine, which looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % kinit Password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

and 1.4.4_p20070724, is there an easy way to do that without emerging first one ans then the other? By comparing the ebuilds, one can see that 1.4.4_p20070724-r2 adds thre more patches. Two are architecture related (sparc and ppc), the third one seems to add CVS stuff. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

. OpenAFS today works fine with kerberos 5 servers like MIT Krb5 or Heimdahl. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http

[OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Hi, I'm currently facing strange behaviour on one client machine, which looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % kinit Password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % aklog [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % tokens Tokens held by the Cache Manager: User's (AFS ID 1001) tokens for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Expires

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

Am Sonntag, 12. August 2007 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: What version of AFS is on the file servers? It's also 1.4.4, Ubuntu Feisty. How are tokens being obtained on rohan? Via PAM at login time (pam_krb5 + pam_openafs_session). Do you have the same issues if you using kinit / aklog ? You

Re: [OpenAFS] Usernames in pts

Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 schrieb ext Mikkel Kruse Johnsen: fs setacl /afs/.cbs.dk/home/mkj.lib all Just a guess, but to whom do you want to give all permissions on that directory? HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax

Re: [OpenAFS] Version 1.4.5 (was: Production ready?)

Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2007 schrieb Russ Allbery: but note that the 1.4.4 client release on Linux only supports Linux kernels up through (IIRC) 2.6.20. 1.4.4/2.6.21.x also worked fine for me. Later kernels will require the upcoming 1.4.5 release. Ah, that will then solve my compilation

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.4.4 + Kernel 2.6.22.1 compile error

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] Full disk woes

which are located on _another_ partition? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf

Re: [OpenAFS] Full disk woes

Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2007 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Steve Devine: I committed the cardinal sin of letting a server partition fill up. I have tried vos remove and vos zap .. I can't get rid of any vols.Volume management fails on this machine. Did you try

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

Am Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007 schrieb Gérald Macinenti: would it be another option to have a simple fileserver added to both administrative servers (with the same cell name??) and migrate volumes with a vos move from old to this fs then move from this fs to new? Hmm, seems you make things more

Re: [OpenAFS] User got token, but aklog doesn´ t show it? - SOLVED

. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key

Re: [OpenAFS] Add new fileserver

Am Sonntag, 8. April 2007 schrieb Melvin Wong: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vos listaddrs afs1.ben.muveenet afs2.ben.muveenet [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vos partinfo afs1.ben.muveenet Free space on partition /vicepa: 711420 K blocks out of total 734684 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vos partinfo

Re: [OpenAFS] About OpenAfs

Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 schrieb colderthanice: WOOW. We can run Word from openafs. I mean Microsoft Word. Not word document!! Yes, I understood that. Microsoft Word is aproximately 30-40MB executable file. So what? How long time does it take run? I don't know. I don't use it. How

Re: [OpenAFS] Help in Setting up Openafs

Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 schrieb Melvin Wong: a.Is it possible to join a Windows afs server to a linux afs cell? AFAIK, there is no such thing as a Windows AFS server. Or has this changed recently? b.How do I mount the afs user directory to the home directory such that the users

Re: [OpenAFS] About OpenAfs

Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 schrieb colderthanice: I am new in this group and new about Openafs. I want to ask somethings about system.I think we use openafs system as a network mapping drive. Beside this. 1- Can we install openafs server to winxp? See thread from two hours ago. 2- Is it

Re: [OpenAFS] bos: can't open cell database

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Re: [OpenAFS] Active Directory 2003, kerberos 5, openAFS - rxkad error=19270407, arghhhh

? Thanx... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key

Re: [OpenAFS] Reiserfs under AFS

local file systems? Yes, you can use reiserfs for /vicepX. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D

Re: [OpenAFS] Initial fileserver setup fails

for kernel module). Should I try some older stable release (1.4.1 ? maybe older ?). I've running it on Gentoo with latest versions of both vanilla kernel and openafs w/o probs. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0

Re: [OpenAFS] PAGS and kernels

kernels. the fc4 kernels come with keyring support builtin. Just to clarify: Does this mean that, when using kernel.org kernels, one has to enable CONFIG_KEYS? Thanks... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111

[OpenAFS] Q: Nested groups and performance

Hi, just a short question: Does enabling (and using) nested groups have any known impact on performance? Thanks... Dirk pgpB8t3u69j75.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OpenAFS] Supported enctypes in OpenAFS 1.4.x

for AFS? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key

Re: [OpenAFS] setting up a new cell on RHEL4

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Re: [OpenAFS] Supported enctypes in OpenAFS 1.4.x

Am Mittwoch, 30. August 2006 11:17 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: I've just installed a new cell, using MIT Krb5 1.4.3 and OpenAFS 1.4.1. For the afs/cellname principal I have used enctype des-cbc-crc:normal. Now I wonder wether this was my only choice or could I just have used another (more

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS vs NFSv4 (linux)

for details. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS vs NFSv4 (linux)

is the kernel module. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

is printing related to AFS? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and Kerberos

Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 16:09 schrieb ext Dr A V Le Blanc: (1) It won't allow a user whose home directory is in AFS to authenticate using ssh keys, even if he has Kerberos tickets to transfer. Should work if the ssh key is stored in LDAP. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk

[OpenAFS] 2 simple questions

/data is owned by afsadm:afs (150:150), afsadm being a member of system:administrators. Is it ok to have /afs (the volume, not the mount point) and /afs/mydomain be owned by afsadm:afs? Thanx... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax

Re: [OpenAFS] debian, login, pam.d, home on afs and aklog

tokens from krb5 tickets. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ

[OpenAFS] Linux: Problem compiling 1.3.85 kernel module with 2.6.13

-kernel-1.3.85/work/openafs-1.3.85/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.13-SP' Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux: Problem compiling 1.3.85 kernel module with 2.6.13

Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 16:00 schrieb ext Derrick J Brashear: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hi, when compiling 1.3.85 against linux 2.6.13, I get this error: When I drive my old car, the muffler sometimes falls off. I gave up and started driving the new one. Yep

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux: Problem compiling 1.3.85 kernel module with 2.6.13

Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 17:37 schrieb ext Derrick J Brashear: So openafs-announce is chopped meat? Oops, forgot to subscribe, shame on me ;-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini

Re: [OpenAFS] [FOR TESTING] OpenAFS 1.4.0-rc1 RPMs for RHEL4 (i386, x86_64)

://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/ ? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472

[OpenAFS] Re: Problem starting 1.3.8[56] client on Linux 2.6.12.3

, but that didn't help. Bye... Dirk [1]: http://www.dfn-cert.de/infoserv/dib/dib-2002-03-OpenAFS/index.html -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55

Re: [OpenAFS] File searching in openafs space

/updatedb.conf and remove afs from the PRUNEFS variable, then run updatedb. However, it may be a good idea to recompile slocate so that it puts it's database into AFS. This way, updatedb can be run on one machine, but the database can be accessed from all clients. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk

[OpenAFS] OAFS performance on diskless clients

Hello, I wonder what would be the minimum requirements for a network based on OAFS Servers and diskless clients with a user base 100. Would a 10 MBit network be sufficient, or better go for 100MBit. Any suggestions? Thanx... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)241 413 260

Re: [OpenAFS] questions on AFS

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Srinivas, Mohan wrote: Hi everybody, can any one explain these questions? 1) Does AFS supports file level migration? If not what is the reason? Just curious, what is file level migration? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)241 413 260

[OpenAFS] Q: Diskless Clients

Hi there, is it possible to operate AFS clients totally diskless? Thanx... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)241 413 260 QIS Systemhaus GmbH | Fax: +49 (0)241 413 2640 Jlicher Str. 338b | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-52070 Aachen | Web: http://www.qis

Re: [OpenAFS] Q: Diskless Clients

David Thompson wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: I wrote: Hi there, is it possible to operate AFS clients totally diskless? Hmm, I think I found the answer myself: The cache manager can be configured to use a memory cache instead of a disc cache, so it should be possible to setup

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