RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Moritz Bunse
Hi I'm using CentOS 5, a RHEL 5 rebuild. I just dowdnloaded the source rpm and did # rpmbuild --rebuild openafs-1.4.4-rhel4.2.src.rpm --define 'osvers rhel5' Then the rpms can be found in e.g. /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/. Works fine for me. There are also prebuild rpms available in the

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Harald Barth
Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer builds are not present. (RH5 is out was well as newer RH4, the current kernel is several version newer than what has packages available.) Yes. It takes a serious amount of manpower to keep up with the zillions of Linux versions in

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Simmons wrote: On Jul 13, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: I looking for a production ready distributed file system. . . . I have been looking for a good printed book to read though to learn more, but really can't find much.

Re: [OpenAFS] ACL for system:administrators

2007-07-17 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:57:04PM +0200, El Barto wrote: HI I have a little problem with acl and the system:administrators group. I remove the right for system:administrators on my afs volume : ([EMAIL PROTECTED] 105)fs la Access list for . is Normal rights: vadot_e rlidwka

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Derrick Brashear
On 7/17/07, Harald Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer builds are not present. (RH5 is out was well as newer RH4, the current kernel is several version newer than what has packages available.) Yes. It takes a serious amount of

RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
It had been a long time since I have rebuilt packages from source and I was struggling with that a bit. I had it all but the define. That made a world of difference! I've got it installed; now I will figure out how to use it! Thank you! -- Andrew -Original Message- From: Moritz

Re: [OpenAFS] ACL for system:administrators

2007-07-17 Thread Kim Kimball
The listed ACL also states that the user 'vodot_e' (you, I think) can change the ACL. Just make sure that you have tokens, either for a system administrator, or for 'vodot_e' Kim Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:57:04PM +0200, El Barto wrote: HI I have a

[OpenAFS] Feature request, sort of

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Simmons
This actually works, but results in whiny messages from AFS when you do vos examines. After some thought, I think the right direction is to have a different 'type' of read-only volume. The problem - users writing into restored volumes. The solution - make restore volumes read-only. The

Re: [OpenAFS] ACL for system:administrators

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Deason
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:54:53 +0200 Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Members of system:administrators have implicit 'l' and 'a' everywhere. You should be able to set ACLs as admin. This is also configurable by the fileserver command line option -implicit. The l and a rights are just the