Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Jason Edgecombe wrote: If someone can provide a script to easily "notice" update kernels available for (RPM, at least) platforms we support I will work on getting something automated to kick out more builds. how about this: curl -l ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distr

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Derek Atkins wrote: Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: openafs.org won't necessarily issue RPMs for each and every RHEL point kernel release but rebuilding and making your own is not too hard; you'd just have to build your own openafs-kernel rpms that contained the modu

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > openafs.org won't necessarily issue RPMs for each and every RHEL point > kernel release but rebuilding and making your own is not too hard; you'd > just have to build your own openafs-kernel rpms that contained the module > for the newest point release, put

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Dan Pritts
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:50:39AM -0500, Steve Devine wrote: > I know that we can get Fedora rpms from openafs but I question how > closely they follow the kernel releases. > How is Debian, Ubuntu , Slackware , Mandriva in this regard? Would we > get better results with Red Hat Enterprise? You'l

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and legato networker

2006-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Friebel
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Friebel wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Juha Jäykkä wrote: Does anyone have any experience using legato networker to back up afs volumes? ... We have built a solution around Legato Networker that is using both full and incremental dumps using 'vos dump'. The resulti

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Banz
On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:50, Steve Devine wrote: For years we have maintained classroom 'gateway' boxes that ran an afs client and exported user space via samba. These machines were always Suns of some flavor running Solaris. Now we have been mandated to migrate to x86 and we have been experiment

RE: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread ted creedon
One might contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] He was in charge of OpenAFS. He insists on a stable release, whatever that is to him. tedc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Devine Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:39 AM To: 'OpenAFS-Info' Subj

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Devine
seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 08:25 -0800, ted creedon wrote: > > >> It's a small price to pay for something that works. And Novell is protected >> from future MS infringement claims. >> > > If you're going to use the above as a claim for why to buy a novell > product then it mi

RE: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread ted creedon
You are correct, "They're up to something". -Original Message- From: seth vidal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'OpenAFS-Info' Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions. On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 08:25 -0800, ted cree

RE: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 08:25 -0800, ted creedon wrote: > It's a small price to pay for something that works. And Novell is protected > from future MS infringement claims. If you're going to use the above as a claim for why to buy a novell product then it might be best to mention that novell decidi

RE: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread ted creedon
SuSE is a well developed and integrated package. All that is needed is the desktop version for $50+bucks, unlimited usage. OpenAFS works well with SuSE and development fixes are typically 24 hour turnaround. It's a small price to pay for something that works. And Novell is protected from future M

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread vladimir konrad
> How is Debian, Ubuntu , Slackware , Mandriva in this regard? i am using debian sarge with openafs 1.4.2 (build from source) and kernel 2.6.18.2. works well... update (to kernel or openafs client) + rebuild is quite simple. also, i have created a simple custom script to load the correct libafs.

[OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions.

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Devine
For years we have maintained classroom 'gateway' boxes that ran an afs client and exported user space via samba. These machines were always Suns of some flavor running Solaris. Now we have been mandated to migrate to x86 and we have been experimenting with different Linux OS's. We would very much

Re: [OpenAFS] Compiling afs module on sparc64

2006-11-08 Thread Gunnar Krull
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:57, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yup, that's because it's not GPL (it's released under the IBM Public > License). > > However, normally it will build anyway. It sounds like there's some sort > of additional restriction on sparc64 that's not present on x86 or amd64 > (at lea

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-win32-devel] OpenAFS vs Vista

2006-11-08 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Matt Benjamin wrote: > Jeff, > > I recall seeting the IFS working (by some definition of "working") on > Eric JW's workstation in 2005. What specifically are the missing > features that must be implemented to complete the work? > > Matt Matt: (1) the current code works on pre-Vista 32-bit plat

Re: [OpenAFS] LiveCD for openafs disaster recovery scenarios ?

2006-11-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Hello > > At least one (and possibly two) hard disks on the machine (has RAID 5 - > rebuild did not help too much) that runs our openafs cell failed today. This > is a Debian machine. Partition /usr is down and attemp