Re: [OpenAFS] issue with outlook pst file

2005-05-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
David Bear wrote: >On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:50:01PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > >>It is not safe to store any files in AFS which are databases that >>are accessed via multiple applications at the same time. This is >>because there is no byte range locking supported in AFS. >> >> > >I

Re: [OpenAFS] issue with outlook pst file

2005-05-25 Thread David Bear
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:50:01PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > It is not safe to store any files in AFS which are databases that > are accessed via multiple applications at the same time. This is > because there is no byte range locking supported in AFS. I understand that would mean ms access

Re: [OpenAFS] issue with outlook pst file

2005-05-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
It is not safe to store any files in AFS which are databases that are accessed via multiple applications at the same time. This is because there is no byte range locking supported in AFS. The problem that was solved in AFS with regards to Office applications is that the overlapped I/O problems wh

[OpenAFS] issue with outlook pst file

2005-05-25 Thread David Bear
A few years ago I attempted to store ms outlook pst files in afs. this was a big failure. That was when we wer using transarc afs (i think) I had gleaned from this list that there were no longer issues with storing outlook.pst files in afs. So I began storing file their a couple weeks ago. My pst

Re: [OpenAFS] Current State of Web Front-Ends for AFS...

2005-05-25 Thread Craig Huckabee
Stephen Joyce wrote: I didn't see any method of PAG implementation in the source either, but I'm just beginning to read up on DAV, so perhaps it has some other way of dealing with that particular problem (or I'm thinking of a problem that wouldn't really exist). IIRC, Apache-AuthKrb5Afs calls

Re: [OpenAFS] Current State of Web Front-Ends for AFS...

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Joyce
Joshua, I took a brief look at the source for Apache-AuthKrb5Afs on CPAN and it looks very simple; much too simple to be aware of AFS-specific features such as ACLs, groups, etc. I didn't see any method of PAG implementation in the source either, but I'm just beginning to read up on DAV, so perha