[OpenAFS] Re: Debian Etch | last vote started -59 seconds ago

2007-09-25 Thread Mustafa A. Hashmi
On 9/24/07, Mustafa A. Hashmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: merry: 192.168.0.40 pippin: 192.168.0.41 As soon as the second server is started, observing udebug information on quorum reports the following: pippin:/var/log/openafs# udebug pippin 7003 Host's addresses are: 192.168.0.41 Host's

Re: [OpenAFS] Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread Zach
Could we have a disconnected mode for say just a user's $HOME directory. It's likely files in there won't change while they are offline. I run openafs client on my laptop and I use intermittent dialup internet access. It takes a long time to do an operation such as ls for the first time but then

Re: [OpenAFS] Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zach wrote: Could we have a disconnected mode for say just a user's $HOME directory. It's likely files in there won't change while they are offline. I run openafs client on my laptop and I use intermittent dialup internet access. It takes a long

Re: [OpenAFS] Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread Jim Rees
Jeffrey Altman wrote: For each vnode in the cache, you keep track of the connected/disconnected state. While you are in the transition from connected - disconnected you sync files into the cache and mark them disconnected. When a request comes in for a file marked disconnected, you

Re: [OpenAFS] Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Jim Rees wrote: Jeffrey Altman wrote: For each vnode in the cache, you keep track of the connected/disconnected state. While you are in the transition from connected - disconnected you sync files into the cache and mark them disconnected. When a request comes in for a file marked

Re: [OpenAFS] Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Zach wrote: Could we have a disconnected mode for say just a user's $HOME directory. It's likely files in there won't change while they are offline. I run openafs client on my laptop and I use intermittent dialup internet access. It takes a long time to do an operation such as ls for the

[OpenAFS] Re: Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread John Tang Boyland
I would expect that the simplest model for disconnected AFS is to simply serve what's in the cache readonly. That would already be a huge step up from what we have now and while it would serve old files that have since been changed, by preventing writes, it avoids most of the inconsistency

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Disconnected OpenAFS

2007-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
John Tang Boyland wrote: I would expect that the simplest model for disconnected AFS is to simply serve what's in the cache readonly. That would already be a huge step up from what we have now and while it would serve old files that have since been changed, by preventing writes, it avoids

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: limit amount of uncommitted cache manager data?

2007-09-25 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Adam Megacz wrote: Derrick Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it would involve a semantic change but we could start flushing changes in the background before fsync. there are of course potential issues. Wouldn't it be the same semantics as if the client cache were

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

2007-09-25 Thread Derrick Brashear
On 9/25/07, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: since I got a mail from another person who had this same problem, I would like to follow up on this. Here's what I wrote back in august: [...] The problem seems to be independent of the server(s)

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and OpenSUSE build service.

2007-09-25 Thread Ken Aaker
I was looking around OpenSUSE.org and looked at some of their Build Service information. They have a couple of versions of OpenAFS modules available, 1.4..2 and 1.4.4, as well as libpag-openafs-session. I didn't see any familiar names on the packages. I'm going to give their modules a try when I

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

2007-09-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. Bye... Dirk AFS Trace Dump - Date: Tue Sep 25 21:55:33 2007 Found 1 logs. Contents of log cmfx: time 888.201037, pid 0: Tue Sep 25 21:54:32 2007 raw op 701087822,

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

2007-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. It looks like you don't have afszcm.cat installed where fstrace expects to find it, so you're not getting translation of operations into

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

2007-09-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Russ Allbery: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. It looks like you don't have afszcm.cat installed where fstrace expects to

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

2007-09-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Russ Allbery: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 schrieb Derrick Brashear: Having fstrace output might help here. Find it attached. It looks like

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange access problems on one client

2007-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's neither in the src nor in the doc tarball, so it's no wonder that Gentoo doesn't install it. Where can I find it? It's generated during the build process in src/afs/afszcm.cat and installed when you do a make dest, but it looks like it was never