[OpenAFS] Reminder: CFP Registration for OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop '08

2008-03-13 Thread Esther Filderman
[apologies for the cross-posting] http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw08/ March 19th is the deadline for submitting your idea for a talk for the OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2008. Come talk about work you've done, work you're doing, best practices, feature development or something

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora kernel builds

2008-03-13 Thread Derek Atkins
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this just an oversight in the configuration or an actual change that will come to affect us longer term? I would think that down() would be an important API to export! I think this has to be regarded as a

[OpenAFS] Compiling openafs-1.4.6 on AIX 5.3

2008-03-13 Thread Frank Bagehorn
Hi all, I'm trying to compile 1.4.6 on AIX 5.3 with the built-in krb5. I used the following settings for configure: CC=xlc KRB5CFLAGS=-I/usr/include KRB5LIBS=-L/usr/krb5/lib -lkrb5 ./configure --with-afs-sysname=rs_aix53 --enable-transarc-paths --with-krb5 While compiling aklog I get errors

[OpenAFS] Compiling 1.5.33 on AIX 5.3

2008-03-13 Thread Frank Bagehorn
Hi all, I'm trying to compile 1.5.33 on AIX 5.3 with the built-in krb5. I used the following settings for configure: CC=xlc KRB5CFLAGS=-I/usr/include KRB5LIBS=-L/usr/krb5/lib -lkrb5 ./configure --with-afs-sysname=rs_aix53 --enable-transarc-paths --with-krb5 While compiling aklog I get errors

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs client on Linux-s390x sometimes not replying to whoareyou() calls

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Jacobi
Hello Jason, there is definitely no firewall rule that would block any UDP packets between the fileserver and the AFS-Client. And as you see in the output, the host does reply to whoareyou() packets ... just sometimes it doesn't which is very painful. We did some investigation in the network but

[OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-13 Thread Kim Kimball
We're using Hitachi USP and Hitachi 9585 SAN devices, and have had a series of incidents that, after two years of success, significantly affected AFS reliability for a period of six months. I'm wondering if anyone else has had any issues using SANs for vice partitions. Also, to make a long

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-13 Thread Robert Banz
AFS can't really cause san issues in that it's just another application using your filesystem. In some cases, it can be quite a heavy user of such, but since its only interacting through the fs, its not going to know anything about your underlying storage fabric, or have any way of

[OpenAFS] atrpms for fedora openafs?

2008-03-13 Thread William Murray
Hello all, I have noticed a lack of kmdl rpms for Fedora 8 in the atrpms repo. I have openafs-kmdl-2.6.23.15-137.fc8-1.4.6-26.fc8 but see nothing for kernel 2.6.24 The funny thing is, if I go and browse the repo at http://dl.atrpms.net/f8-i386/atrpms/stable/ I see no kmdl files there at

Re: [OpenAFS] atrpms for fedora openafs?

2008-03-13 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 13 Mar 2008, at 22:39, William Murray wrote: I have noticed a lack of kmdl rpms for Fedora 8 in the atrpms repo. I have openafs-kmdl-2.6.23.15-137.fc8-1.4.6-26.fc8 but see nothing for kernel 2.6.24 OpenAFS 1.4.6 requires some additional patches in order to build against the

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-13 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Robert Banz wrote: AFS can't really cause san issues in that it's just another application using your filesystem. In some cases, it can be quite a heavy user of such, but since its only interacting through the fs, its not going to know anything about your underlying storage fabric, or

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Kim Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're using Hitachi USP and Hitachi 9585 SAN devices, and have had a series of incidents that, after two years of success, significantly affected AFS reliability for a period of six months. I'm wondering if anyone else has had any issues using SANs for

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora kernel builds

2008-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Derek Atkins wrote: Then again I've also just considered a GPL module that wraps all the GPL-only APIs and just re-exports them. Hey, THAT module is GPL! ;) This whole GPL-only thing is just stupid. Read http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/NDISwrapper_and_the_GPL smime.p7s Description: S/MIME