Re: [OpenAFS] software for windows start out of OpenAFS Filespace?

2007-02-22 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, wrong email last time Jeffrey Altman wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! Has anyone started a list (in a wiki or for only his own usage) of software for windows (workstations) which runs out of OpenAFS filespace? E.G. mplayer or media

Re: [OpenAFS] software for windows start out of OpenAFS Filespace?

2007-02-22 Thread scorch
Lars Schimmer wrote: Sorry if I ask a bit further, is this still true with more users? EG setting up one install in AFS filespace and office 2003 works for all (10-2000) customers out of AFS space without an extra need of install local at each PC? this would be a good time for a slightly

Re: [OpenAFS] perl AFS compile fails

2007-02-22 Thread Norbert Gruener
Hi Dave, On Mon, Feb 19 2007, Dave Botsch wrote: Hi. Trying to get the perl afs stuff to compile against rhel4 running openafs1.4.2 The compile pukes with... gcc -c -I/usr/include -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include

[OpenAFS] User report Solaris 10/Sparc kernel panics with 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 -- anyone else???

2007-02-22 Thread Kim Kimball
Hello, I've done some stress testing of 1.4.2 on this platform with AFS induced load averages exceeding 80 (as well as more reasonable loads) without issues. A segment of our lab is moving from AFS on Solaris 10/Sparc over this issue, but are using AFS 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 Is this consistent

[OpenAFS] odd error

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Devine
Anyone ever see this? I can move a small file 1Meg of but a larger one like this 19Meg file testfile.tes gives me the error below. I have tried this on several clients it seems to be exclusive to the volume. the Volume has lots of space and quota.

[OpenAFS] Renewing tokens for long-running jobs

2007-02-22 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi Everyone, Does anyone have a script that reauthenticates a users process for a long running job? I'm looking for something that you can run before a job or during the job that asks for the user's password and reauthenticates to kerberos 5 and renews the tokens. The users wants to run jobs

Re: [OpenAFS] odd error

2007-02-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Steve Devine wrote: Anyone ever see this? I can move a small file 1Meg of but a larger one like this 19Meg file testfile.tes gives me the error below. I have tried this on several clients it seems to be exclusive to the volume. the Volume has lots of space and quota.

Re: [OpenAFS] Renewing tokens for long-running jobs

2007-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a script that reauthenticates a users process for a long running job? I'm looking for something that you can run before a job or during the job that asks for the user's password and reauthenticates to kerberos 5 and renews the tokens.

Re: [OpenAFS] odd error

2007-02-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Er --- afsfileprocs.c 26 Sep 2006 02:13:17 - 1.81.2.37 +++ afsfileprocs.c 22 Feb 2007 15:14:52 - @@ -7465,7 +7465,9 @@ sys2et[EISCONN] = UAEISCONN; sys2et[ENOTCONN] = UAENOTCONN; sys2et[ESHUTDOWN] = UAESHUTDOWN; +#if (ETOOMANYREFS != EIO)

Re: [OpenAFS] odd error

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Devine
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Steve Devine wrote: Anyone ever see this? I can move a small file 1Meg of but a larger one like this 19Meg file testfile.tes gives me the error below. I have tried this on several clients it seems to be exclusive to the volume. the Volume has lots

Re: [OpenAFS] Latest round of Solaris 10 patches breaks AFS

2007-02-22 Thread David R Boldt
Cache manager is unhappy with latest Solaris 10 kernel changes, at least for 1.4.2. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6522244 Is there a version available yet with corresponding fix? Try 1.4.3rc2? We took some relevant fixes there. That worked, thanks!

Re: [OpenAFS] framework for future release model

2007-02-22 Thread Franco
On Feb 21, 2007, at 09:11pm, Derrick J Brashear wrote: f) we will continue to work with contributors to improve web tools, so releases can be done in a more trouble-free manner. In addition to the obvious web release page, things which would be nice to get would be release RSS feeds, and

RE: [OpenAFS] software for windows start out of OpenAFS File space?

2007-02-22 Thread ted creedon
In the olden days large corporations used central file servers and diskless workstations for 2 reasons, 1. cost 2. software configuration management. Hence NFS and central licensing servers like the FlexLM LM License Server which allowed large customers like HP to upgrade thousands of instances

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs performance in an internet-scale traffic environment

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Simmons
On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Jim Rees wrote: How big is your working set? If it won't fit in your afs cache, you will not be happy. He speaks the truth. The umich web servers serve almost all data out of AFS. They're our torture test of our AFS deployment. :-/ It works, as long as AFS

Re: [OpenAFS] odd error

2007-02-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Well, there's a real bug which probably doesn't not matter on any server you have. Instead of the patch you have, apply: /afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr/shadow/uae.diff Offhand, I'd guess the error you actually got was EIO. --- afsfileprocs.c 26 Sep 2006 02:13:17 - 1.81.2.37 +++

[OpenAFS] more newbie questions

2007-02-22 Thread Jonathan Dobbie
Thank you for the responses, we're still designing our storage system and AFS still seems like the best option. I've installed AFS on a test server (G4 OSX - I figured I'd start with the craziest platform we might want it on) I'm hoping that if I toss my plan out now, people can point out

Re: [OpenAFS] more newbie questions

2007-02-22 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Jonathan Dobbie wrote: Thank you for the responses, we're still designing our storage system and AFS still seems like the best option. I've installed AFS on a test server (G4 OSX - I figured I'd start with the craziest platform we might want it on) I'm hoping that if I toss my plan out

Re: [OpenAFS] more newbie questions

2007-02-22 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Jonathan Dobbie wrote: Thank you for the responses, we're still designing our storage system and AFS still seems like the best option. I've installed AFS on a test server (G4 OSX - I figured I'd start with the craziest platform we might want it on) I'm hoping that if I toss my plan out now,

[OpenAFS] Hardware Grants from Sun

2007-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Tom has proposed that OpenAFS submit a hardware grant request to Sun. It is believed that we can obtain up to $100,000 in 1U X86 boxes that we could use for a test infrastructure. Sun may be tempted to provide this equipment if OpenAFS was to state a desire to target OpenSolaris as a preferred

Re: [OpenAFS] Hardware Grants from Sun

2007-02-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Tom has proposed that OpenAFS submit a hardware grant request to Sun. It is believed that we can obtain up to $100,000 in 1U X86 boxes that we could use for a test infrastructure. Sun may be tempted to provide this equipment if OpenAFS was to state a

Re: [OpenAFS] Hardware Grants from Sun

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Banz
On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Tom has proposed that OpenAFS submit a hardware grant request to Sun. It is believed that we can obtain up to $100,000 in 1U X86 boxes that we could use for a test infrastructure. Sun may be

Re: [OpenAFS] more newbie questions

2007-02-22 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Dobbie wrote: As a last question, completely out of left field, does anyone know if AFS stores apple metadata? I've seen some references to it doing so in Apple Double files, but nothing concrete. I'm not sure, but apple tends to store

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs performance in an internet-scale traffic environment

2007-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The umich web servers serve almost all data out of AFS. They're our torture test of our AFS deployment. :-/ It works, as long as AFS works. BTW, the users consider this a great feature. They update the files, and the changes are instantly usable.