Re: [OpenAFS] High Speed AFS Access

2004-01-21 Thread Sven Oehme
okay , i forgot ;fs flush ; fs flushvolume  in my example i see with iostat an average write speed of 32-38 MB/sec on the fileserver , so why should the speed be lower ? but i will try the afsfsperf tool to collect the data . can you post your config changes on that System ? BosConfig , tcp cha

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Jason C. Wells
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Stephen Bosch wrote: > Hi, everybody: To answer your last question first, AFS is easy to administer on a day to day basis. Once it's up, it works. To talk about some of the other issues you addressed, AFS is the only system that provides certain features. For me it was Ker

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I've been hammering away at our first ever OpenAFS install for > about four full days now, and there is some good news and some bad > news. Four days!?!? The last time I installed a cell from scratch (which was a few months ago) I got it all

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Hendrik Hoeth
Hi, > The good news is, it is running. congratulations! > I spent hours trying to understand uss. :-) > The bad news is that, in spite of using the pam modules, tokens are > not being issued at login time. I have created a user with the same > UID, password and login name, configured pam.d/log

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Dave McMurtrie
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Derek Atkins wrote: > I don't know the size of your company, but a single person can handle > this part-time for a small company. For an entire university, we essentially have a single person managing our cell. Dave -- Dave McMurtrie, Systems Programmer University of Pittsbu

RE: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread ted creedon
Try setting a Wiki up and put the commands in the wiki. Add export S='server.full.domain.name'; export C='cellname'; export H='remote_server.full.domain.name" And use commands like: bos setcellname $S $C Takes about 5 min to set up, repeat about 25 times... tedc -Original Message- From:

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jason C. Wells wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Stephen Bosch wrote: Hi, everybody: To answer your last question first, AFS is easy to administer on a day to day basis. Once it's up, it works. To talk about some of the other issues you addressed, AFS is the only system that provides certain feature

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, I've been hammering away at our first ever OpenAFS install for about four full days now, and there is some good news and some bad news. Four days!?!? The last time I installed a cell from scratch (which was a few months a

pam issues - was Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hendrik Hoeth wrote: Hi, The good news is, it is running. congratulations! Hi, Henrik. Thanks. Though it's running, but not being used yet :\ I spent hours trying to understand uss. :-) The bad news is that, in spite of using the pam modules, tokens are not being issued at login time. I

[OpenAFS] Questions, vol 1.

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
Okay, folks -- you've convinced me. I'm not going to give up just yet... if you'll help me a bit. I have a bunch of questions. 1. When AFS mounts volumes in a physical partition, what happens to the partition itself? I don't see any "files" that correspond in size to the data stored on the par

Re: pam issues - was Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread Derrick J Brashear
So what's in /etc/pam.d/system-auth? ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: pam issues - was Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

2004-01-21 Thread John Tang Boyland
Just wanted to point out that (open)sshd doesn't work well with PAM/AFS. Like you said, you have to klog again after logging on, even after using PAM for AFS login. This has been reported off and on in openafs-info since openssh 3.7.1 It happens because sshd loses the PAG for the login shell. Th

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions, vol 1.

2004-01-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. When AFS mounts volumes in a physical partition, what happens to > the partition itself? I don't see any "files" that correspond in size > to the data stored on the partition. Can I make, say, a partition > image and still have the data, or do I have

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions, vol 1.

2004-01-21 Thread Noel Burton-Krahn
Hi Stephen, Hang in there, I remember facing the same pain setting up and understanding OpenAFS. I also remember the same reasons for going there: we needed a distributed file system and AFS beats NFS, Samba, and Coda. You still have a bunch of pain to go through I think, but once you're done, I

[OpenAFS] Questions, vol. 2.

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
More questions! -Volumes and volume sizes -- what do you use as a typical volume size/quota? The default is 5 Mb, which is ridiculously small (and points toward an assumption that AFS will be used largely for user home directories). What is too big? For example, I have just created a volume wi

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions, vol. 2.

2004-01-21 Thread Hartmut Reuter
Stephen Bosch wrote: More questions! -Volumes and volume sizes -- what do you use as a typical volume size/quota? The default is 5 Mb, which is ridiculously small (and points toward an assumption that AFS will be used largely for user home directories). What is too big? For example, I have just