Re: [OpenAFS] bandwidth requirements

2006-10-16 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:35:18PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > We will be deploying a laptop with a wireless broadband card in it, > using Verizon's service. The spec sheet from verizon specifies > 400-700 kpbs with bursts up to 2 mbp. As others have mentioned that's plenty of bandwidth (all thing

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Danno: > > I suspect that if people filed more bug reports when problems were > experienced that things would get fixed faster. I understand that folks for the record (and I know *you* know this), our windows support folks have in

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Daniel Clark wrote: > BTW the following web pages need to be updated with links to the new > location of the AFSLore wiki: > >* http://www.openafs.org/ (Navigation Frame, 3rd item down). The navbar was updated with this change on Sept 15th of this year. Perhaps your browser is caching an old

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: > I'll note that I run the 1.5.X series of clients in production, although > the 1.5.0901 builds seem to have serious problems when mount points or > symlinks are removed, but this has only really affected me as most users > do not need to use such features, especia

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-16 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:54 -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > Sorry for jumping in late on this. I was out on vacation at the time. > > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Stephen Joyce wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: > > > >> Specifically I'm interested in how many of them can do: > >> - v

Re: [OpenAFS] bandwidth requirements

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Rees
I used to run the Transarc client over a 9600 bps Qblazer. With almost everything in afs, including almost all of /usr (not /usr/vice obviously). ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-in

[OpenAFS] Volumes going offline, cacheing question

2006-10-16 Thread Joseph Di Lellio
My Sun storedge 3510 array has cacheing turned on... I just found this out. I don't have logging turned on for the partitions, but does disk cacheing cause troubles? This is what I'm using for the fileservers. However, it's really the general question I'm curious about. And btw, a thanks

Re: [OpenAFS] bandwidth requirements

2006-10-16 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, David Bear wrote: We will be deploying a laptop with a wireless broadband card in it, using Verizon's service. The spec sheet from verizon specifies 400-700 kpbs with bursts up to 2 mbp. This sounds low, but I am hoping it is enough for openafs. Anyone have any experiences

Re: [OpenAFS] bandwidth requirements

2006-10-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Works just fine. Writes can still take a while, tho. -derek Quoting David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We will be deploying a laptop with a wireless broadband card in it, using Verizon's service. The spec sheet from verizon specifies 400-700 kpbs with bursts up to 2 mbp. This sounds low, but I

[OpenAFS] bandwidth requirements

2006-10-16 Thread David Bear
We will be deploying a laptop with a wireless broadband card in it, using Verizon's service. The spec sheet from verizon specifies 400-700 kpbs with bursts up to 2 mbp. This sounds low, but I am hoping it is enough for openafs. Anyone have any experiences using openafs on a network like this? --

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel Clark
On 10/16/06, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks - what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an AFS backend to windows clients? There is a (hopefully pretty complete) list of methods of doing this up at: * http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/SMBtoAF

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Danno: I suspect that if people filed more bug reports when problems were experienced that things would get fixed faster. I understand that folks are reluctant to file reports when they can't reproduce the problems or when there are no resources available to assist in debugging or identifying the

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some of it has been mysterious issues with changes not being saved. > I think this is really because they are simultaneously editing AFS > files with MS office, because they refuse to drag files to their > desktop before opening and the 1.4 client we're using

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:39:09PM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: > what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an > AFS backend to windows clients? I could easily use Linux or Solaris > as the samba server. Other platforms would be possible. That works perfectly fine. > how does ha

[OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi folks - what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an AFS backend to windows clients? I could easily use Linux or Solaris as the samba server. Other platforms would be possible. how does handle file locking? How does it handle authentication? can you successfully use MS

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-16 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
Sorry for jumping in late on this. I was out on vacation at the time. On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Stephen Joyce wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: Specifically I'm interested in how many of them can do: - volumeset backups or backup by wildcarded volume/partion names - full volume resto

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS 1.4.2fc2 and Vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.18

2006-10-16 Thread FB
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:18:31AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > Not for 1.4.2, but yes, we should probably do that. [snip] Perfect. I could provide a patch ;-) . ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mai

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS 1.4.2fc2 and Vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.18

2006-10-16 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Not for 1.4.2, but yes, we should probably do that. On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, FB wrote: Hi, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 08:43:55AM -0400, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: take a look at ticket #42671. the superblock blksize_bits is used to set the blksize_bits on the inode. i think it would be wise