[OpenAFS] fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread vladimir konrad
can openafs fileserver 1.3.81 use other part of the disk then /vicepa? i would need to specify the path where the volumes are to be stored... vlad pgpF2tCy6oJK0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OpenAFS] fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Jun 3, 2006, at 10:54 AM, vladimir konrad wrote: can openafs fileserver 1.3.81 use other part of the disk then /vicepa? i would need to specify the path where the volumes are to be stored... Well actually it's /vicep, but that's not the point... To answer your question... No, the files

[OpenAFS] RE: fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread vladimir konrad
thank you for the prompt reply... > To answer your question... No, the fileserver cannot be configured to > look elsewhere (unless you change some code). > What's the problem with mounting your storage for AFS to /vicepXX? one of our main afs servers went down (i still have the volume dumps on

Re: [OpenAFS] RE: fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread vladimir konrad
> just a crazy thought, would not symlink work (/vicepa -> > /some/directory/elsewhere)? i just realised that i could do a loop device and mount that on /vicepa . that should work (maybe bit slover but this does not matter at the moment)... pgpA0vRrE8oqg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OpenAFS] RE: fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread Carsten Schulz-Key
vladimir konrad wrote: >> just a crazy thought, would not symlink work (/vicepa -> >> /some/directory/elsewhere)? > >i just realised that i could do a loop device and mount that on /vicepa . that >should work (maybe bit >slover but this does not matter at the moment)... Yes thats an option. Sinc

Re: [OpenAFS] speed of vos dump on linux gbit ethernet

2006-06-03 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Oehme wrote: > > i know the difference between afsd.conf and the fileserver params , but > i have no debian box in front of me, so i can't see what's in the script > :-) > but you answered me what

Re: [OpenAFS] speed of vos dump on linux gbit ethernet

2006-06-03 Thread Sven Oehme
What filesystem are you using ? i got the best results with XFS and having the log on a separate partition ... Sven Lars Schimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/03/2006 01:01 PM To openafs-info@openafs.org cc Subject Re: [OpenAFS] speed of vos dump on linux gbit

Re: [OpenAFS] speed of vos dump on linux gbit ethernet

2006-06-03 Thread Jim Rees
I've been told it's crucial to increase both rxpck and udpsize. Maybe we should change the defaults, or auto-tune them somehow? Our production servers run with fileserver -L -p 92 -rxpck 2400 -udpsize 524288 -l 1000 -s 1000 -vc 1000 -nojumbo ___ OpenAF

[OpenAFS] how to "clone" an existing openafs server

2006-06-03 Thread vladimir konrad
i have 2 openafs servers, each of them holding a set of volumes. one of the servers (old server) has developed a hard-disk problems but i can still dump all afs volumes without triggering an error. i have installed openafs-fileserver and openafs-dbserver on a different machine (new box), have

Re: [OpenAFS] how to "clone" an existing openafs server

2006-06-03 Thread vladimir konrad
forgot to write that both "original" servers are parts of the same afs cell: current situation: "server1", "old server" (both afs cell x) wanted: "server1", "new server" (both afs cell x) where "new server" would hold all that the "old server" did... vlad pgpPPUY00Sgew.pgp De

Re: [OpenAFS] fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Horst Birthelmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well actually it's /vicep, but that's not > the point... > > To answer your question... No, the fileserver cannot be configured to > look elsewhere (unless you change some code). > > What's the problem with mounting your storage for AFS to /vicepX

Re: [OpenAFS] how to "clone" an existing openafs server

2006-06-03 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Saturday, June 03, 2006 05:29:21 PM +0100 vladimir konrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: forgot to write that both "original" servers are parts of the same afs cell: current situation: "server1", "old server" (both afs cell x) wanted: "server1", "new server" (both afs cell

Re: *** Spam *** Re: [OpenAFS] Moving content of /vicep w/o 'vos {backup,restore}?

2006-06-03 Thread Kim Kimball
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Thursday, June 01, 2006 08:58:59 AM -0600 Kim Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Removing the volume header files from the original vicep unusable ... except that the salvager can recover from this. ___ On an inode fileserver?

Re: *** Spam *** Re: [OpenAFS] Moving content of /vicep w/o 'vos {backup,restore}?

2006-06-03 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Kim Kimball wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Thursday, June 01, 2006 08:58:59 AM -0600 Kim Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Removing the volume header files from the original vicep unusable ... except that the salvager can recover from this. ___ On an inode file

Re: [OpenAFS] RE: fileserver and /vicepa

2006-06-03 Thread Brady Catherman
One big huge issue with the /vicepa requirement is that it is a total pain to get Mac OS to mount drives in /vicepa rather than /Volumes/ vicepa.. (Not that this really matters all that much but it would make like 10 times easier if /Volumes/vicepa would work =) On Jun 3, 2006, at 2:53 AM,