Re: [OpenAFS] Re: why afs backup is so poorly supported

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Simmons
On Oct 10, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Matt Benjamin wrote: Cool as the transactional piece would be, iirc from our discussion in 2004, putting a postgresql behind every fileserver sounds kind of heavyweight, doesn't it? Plus, is there a difference between transactional metadata updates and

Re: [OpenAFS] win afs deamon startup takes about 90seconds

2006-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Altman
If you are getting per file delays at that point in the code it would be the digital signature validation on the DLLs to ensure that they match. Do you have OCSP certificate validation turned on as part of your Internet Options? Jeffrey Altman Sebastian Maennling wrote: Hi, i got a strange

[OpenAFS] testing RPMs for 1.4.2 (was: OpenAFS RPMs at ATrpms)

2006-10-12 Thread Axel Thimm
I have placed packages of 1.4.2fc4 in atrpms-testing. The supported platforms have been extended to Fedora Core 3 i386 and x86_64 Fedora Core 4 i386 and x86_64 Fedora Core 5 i386, x86_64 and ppc Fedora Core 6 i386, x86_64 and ppc Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 i386 and x86_64 Redhat

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: why afs backup is so poorly supported

2006-10-12 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Steve Simmons write s: Inversions file system, a project which built a fs on top of University Ingres. It was presented at a USENIX. As I recall, they claimed somewhere about a 2:1 overhead in general. it depends on how this was measured. user - kernel - native

Re: [OpenAFS] achieving balance?

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Joyce
(is it schizophrenic to reply to one's own post?) ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/AFS-Tools/balance-1.2-beta.tar.gz will compile, with warnings, on linux after adjusting library locations. However while it's stable on solaris, it segfaults fairly often on linux. Is there a newer version that

Re: [OpenAFS] achieving balance?

2006-10-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The tool that Russ Allbery distributes is almost certainly more actively maintained. The problem with it, though, is that you have to have a CPLEX/AMPL license to use it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: [OpenAFS] achieving balance?

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Banz
On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:35, Russ Allbery wrote: Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The tool that Russ Allbery distributes is almost certainly more actively maintained. The problem with it, though, is that you have to have a CPLEX/AMPL license to use it. I've been doing some

Re: [OpenAFS] testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Hi Axel, I am using the 2054 kernel. Is there a kernel module for that one ? or do I need to compile it myself ? and what source rpm do I need for that ? I am trying to install the client on FC5 smp x86_64 thanks, Ron Axel Thimm wrote: I have placed packages of 1.4.2fc4 in

Re: [OpenAFS] achieving balance?

2006-10-12 Thread Chaskiel M Grundman
--On Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:14:10 AM -0400 Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a newer version that 1.2-beta (10/26/2003)? Or is anyone using this reliably on linux and willing to share their changes? I have been running it on linux since around 10/26/2003 The only

[OpenAFS] Moving volumes

2006-10-12 Thread Sanjay Dharmavaram
Hi, I am installing a new AFS server on my network which already has anAFS server running. The aim is to replace the already running server with the new one. Is there anyway I can copy volumes and user accounts from the old server onto the new server? (I would prefer copying instead of

[OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:18:10PM -0400, Ron Croonenberg wrote: Hi Axel, I am using the 2054 kernel. Is there a kernel module for that one ? No, only the last 1-2 kmdls are kept around (that's not a technical issue, but a space capacity one). or do I need to compile it myself ? and what

Re: [OpenAFS] Moving volumes

2006-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, October 12, 2006 04:47:39 PM -0400 Sanjay Dharmavaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing a new AFS server on my network which already has anAFS server running. The aim is to replace the already running server with the new one. Is there anyway I can copy volumes and

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Ron, If you use the Official RPMS then (a) you'll already have RPMs for 2054, and (b), all you need to do to rebuild for a new kernel is: rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 openafs...src.rpm I'll let Axel try to explain to you why his method has to be so much more complicated than that. ;)

[OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:12:37PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 openafs...src.rpm I'll let Axel try to explain to you why his method has to be so much more complicated than that. ;) Who says it is? You need a working

[OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Ron Croonenberg
I think I compiled OpenAFS a time or two, heck even hacked around in it to make it work with OpenSSI. I am by no means an expert though, I just do what i am told on here. Axel Thimm wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:12:37PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686

Re: [OpenAFS] Moving volumes

2006-10-12 Thread Marcus Watts
Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] had flamed: On Thursday, October 12, 2006 04:47:39 PM -0400 Sanjay Dharmavaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing a new AFS server on my network which already has anAFS server running. The aim is to replace the already running server with

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Ron Croonenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think I compiled OpenAFS a time or two, heck even hacked around in it to make it work with OpenSSI. I am by no means an expert though, I just do what i am told on here. Axel Thimm wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:12:37PM -0400, Derek Atkins

[OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

2006-10-12 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:26:43PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:12:37PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 openafs...src.rpm I'll let Axel try to explain to you why his method has to be so much more

Re: [OpenAFS] Moving volumes

2006-10-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:29 PM -0400 10/12/06, Marcus Watts wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] had flamed: On Thursday, October 12, 2006 04:47:39 PM -0400 Sanjay Dharmavaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing a new AFS server on my network which already has an AFS server running. The

Re: [OpenAFS] achieving balance?

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Banz
I'd be interested in seeing it if only for what stats you're grabbing and what I could do with them for our own trending. It's kind of cool to do a quick graph with Crystal Reports to show the constant growth of some people's home volumes ;) :cough: mine :cough: -rob