[OpenAFS] 1.3.78 and amd64_linux26

2005-02-28 Thread Miroslav Ruda
Hello, I have tried 1.3.78 on my Suse 9.2 x86_64, with default kernel 2.6.8-24.11. Openafs compiles fine, with sysname amd64_linux26, and I'm able to start afsd. However, my first ls on our cell (not /afs) gives oops of bash: Pid: 5202, comm: bash Tainted: PF U (2.6.8-24.11-default

[OpenAFS] Upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3

2005-02-28 Thread James Burns
Hello all, I'm currently running a one server for fun cell on RedHat 9 with the 1.2.13 rpms. Is there any documentation about the upgrade procedure to the latest 1.3.7x? What should I backup before trying this? Thanks for any help. -James -- We are friends with those whose ideas are at the same

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Stephan Wiesand wri tes: With the UP kernel, I observe the write problem you described - with or without memcache. Reading works in both cases. Shutting down the client works as long as no write operations have been attempted, but is unusually slow (several seconds

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Stephan Wiesand wri tes: With the UP kernel, I observe the write problem you described - with or without memcache. Reading works in both cases. Shutting down the client works as long as no write operations have

[OpenAFS] BreakDelayedCallbacks in Filelog

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Bacchi
I started seeing BreakDelayedCallbacks messages in the Filelog on one of my file servers Friday afternoon. These messages have ceased since a file server restart on Sunday morning. I searched for info on this message, and all I could find is file server tuning may be necessary. Any other ideas?

[OpenAFS] Time on AFS-cell

2005-02-28 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, it's me again... Now a question about time in the AFS cell. My partner here told me, in the AFS cell should only one database-server enabled ntp, all other should have ntp disabled. Now I assume, if all clients has ntp enabled, all client has the

Re: [OpenAFS] Speed of AFS

2005-02-28 Thread Kris Van Hees
That is rather slow, though it can depend on various influences in your environment. I am currently in the middle of a performance analysis on the OpenAFS client, and can get 7-10MB/s on a 100Mbps ethernet (for writes 7-8MB/s, for reads (non-cached data) about 9-10MB/s (which is pretty much wire

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Stephan Wiesand wri tes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep -i preempt /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/build/.config # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY means you get some preemption. just to test this theory that its preempt, can you

RE: [OpenAFS] Time on AFS-cell

2005-02-28 Thread ted creedon
NTP needs to run on all servers and workstations, use the real ntp not the one bundled with AFS. Use the --nosettime switch to disable ntp in the AFS server. To keep your ISP happy, suggest pointing one or two AFS servers at 2 of the the nearest Cicso routers and point the remainder of the local

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3

2005-02-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, James Burns wrote: Hello all, I'm currently running a one server for fun cell on RedHat 9 with the 1.2.13 rpms. Is there any documentation about the upgrade procedure to the latest 1.3.7x? What should I backup before trying this? Thanks for any help. Replace the binaries, bos

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hmm, it doesn't apply to a 1.3.79 tarball. There's nothing suitable for the second hunk in that file. Applying the first hunk only makes inserting the module fail: libafs: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. libafs: no version for sys_close found: kernel tainted. libafs: Unknown symbol

Re: [OpenAFS] BreakDelayedCallbacks in Filelog

2005-02-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Andrew Bacchi wrote: I started seeing BreakDelayedCallbacks messages in the Filelog on one of my file servers Friday afternoon. These messages have ceased since a file server restart on Sunday morning. I searched for info on this message, and all I could find is file server

Summary - Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread Andrei Maslennikov
Thanks to everyone who commented on this to the list. In the end it looks like there is a stable configuration that works for both UP and MP kernels. I have recompiled 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL and the corresponding libafs module from scratch and all went well for the combination: OpenAFS 1.3.79

Re: Summary - Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Andrei Maslennikov wrote: To conclude, it seems that the problem had dissapeared between 2.6.9-5.EL/UP and 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/UP kernels. That's a bit scary, I wonder what changed? ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

[OpenAFS] Permissions Problem

2005-02-28 Thread Mike McCabe
Hello I'm trying to setup Openafs 1.3.79 on Fedora Core 3. I've managed to get authentication working correctly but when a user logs the permissions on the files in his home directory are not set. The directories in his home directory do have permissions set though. Does anyone have any

[OpenAFS] Force OpenAFS client to re-calculate Fileserver rankings

2005-02-28 Thread Roman Rozinov
Title: Force OpenAFS client to re-calculate Fileserver rankings Is there a way to allow an OpenAFS Windows client 1.3.X to recalculate the ranking of Fileservers? Are rankings cached somewhere? Any thoughts? Roman Rozinov Technology Support Analyst Desktop Systems Technology,

RE: [OpenAFS] Time on AFS-cell

2005-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, February 28, 2005 08:33:40 -0800 ted creedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NTP needs to run on all servers and workstations, use the real ntp not the one bundled with AFS. Use the --nosettime switch to disable ntp in the AFS server. This is somewhat misleading. All servers and clients

[OpenAFS] Questions about namei fileserver partitions sharing 1 filesystem...

2005-02-28 Thread Joshua Johnson
All, I a wondering if there is a way to artificially specify the /vicep quota (or max size) when you have multiple namei fileserver partitions sharing the same filesystem. For example if I have a 150GB filesystem and want to put 5 /vicep partitions /vicep[a-e] on it and wish to have no

RE: [OpenAFS] Questions about namei fileserver partitions sharing 1 filesystem...

2005-02-28 Thread Neulinger, Nathan
Partitions don't have quotas... As far as I know there is no way to accomplish what you are trying to do. -- Nathan Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573)

[OpenAFS] 1.3.76 - 1.3.77(or higher)

2005-02-28 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi, At one time, there was a problem with 1.3.76 such that mounts were not created properly. I have a system which has this version of the Windows OpenAFS client installed, and sure enough, does not work. Installing a newer version, as expected also does not work. I'd like to do a fresh

Re: Summary - Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.79 on RHEL4?

2005-02-28 Thread Andrei Maslennikov
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Andrei Maslennikov wrote: To conclude, it seems that the problem had dissapeared between 2.6.9-5.EL/UP and 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/UP kernels. That's a bit scary, I wonder what changed? Well, there was quite a pack of

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.3.76 - 1.3.77(or higher)

2005-02-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Paul Lussier wrote: Is this sufficient to consider an installation of 1.3.77 a fresh install and thereby not incur the wrath of this bug? Or is there more to do than this? That should be it. Reasonably modern OpenAFS doesn't leak registry keys anymore, so if you had none

[OpenAFS] Re: twiki vandalized

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph H Vilas
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:51:19 -0500, Jack Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, just noticed that http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/WindowsLoopBackAdapter is vandalized. Dammit: I removed as much vandalization as I could last week; it looks like it took two days for about 75 pages

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: twiki vandalized

2005-02-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Joseph H Vilas wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:51:19 -0500, Jack Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, just noticed that http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/WindowsLoopBackAdapter is vandalized. Dammit: I removed as much vandalization as I could last week; it looks like

RE: [OpenAFS] Time on AFS-cell

2005-02-28 Thread ted creedon
Excellent commentary. Needs to be in the docs. Didn't realize there were 2 time slots involved. Relying on a local timeserver works here but I'm not trying to sync outside the local realm either. tedc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: twiki vandalized

2005-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, February 28, 2005 17:45:08 -0500 Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So not that I have time to work on it now, and really we should get a sysadmin for openafs to do this, but it would be nice to 1) require registration to edit the wiki We did this a while ago for the

[OpenAFS] Re: twiki vandalized

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph H Vilas
Well, FWIW, I've re-un-vandalized it. Only took about an hour and a half this time -- I guess I'm getting better at it. ;) Joe -- Joseph H Vilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-919-660-6902 Box 90132, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0132 I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with