[OpenAFS] fakestat-all weirdness

Folks, With my RHEL 5 deployment I've begun using the -fakestat-all flag which I'd hoped would make things work better and faster producing less load on our AFS servers. However, we have discovered that if AFS client B altered files used by AFS client A with the fakestat-all flag that AFS client

[OpenAFS] UDP help?

Hello guys, I have a problem with AFS at home, which stopped working a few months ago, and I am not sure why. I THINK udp is blocked somewhere, maybe by my NAT/router box, maybe by AOL. I think 'nc' seems like a good (linux) tool to test things, but I am not used to it. Can anyone suggest

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

Hi Jeff, Jeffrey Altman wrote: AFS is a very stressful application for a file system. If there are bugs in the SAN AFS would be more likely to find them than other applications. *grin* Try telling that to my management! I just sent an email calling AFS an excellent network and storage dia

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: other-realm groups in ACLs?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please clarify what you are asking. Are you asking if you can use > > the group definitions from cell A on ACLs in cell B? > > Yes. > > > "Derrick Brashear" <[EMAIL PROTE

[OpenAFS] Re: other-realm groups in ACLs?

Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please clarify what you are asking. Are you asking if you can use > the group definitions from cell A on ACLs in cell B? Yes. "Derrick Brashear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. And my server has no creds to do a lookup in your realm Sorry, I shoul

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

Thanks Russ. I expected as much when I saw your posting from 2005 in answer to a similar question. This is a great data point for me. Kim Russ Allbery wrote: Kim Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We're using Hitachi USP and Hitachi 9585 SAN devices, and have had a series of

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

Hi Jason, Thanks! Can you tell me which flavor of SAN you're using? Kim Jason Edgecombe wrote: 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 int

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

Thanks Rob! 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 f

Re: [OpenAFS] other-realm groups in ACLs?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Megacz wrote: > > Does AFS support the use of pts groups in a remote (trusted) cell on > > ACLs in the home cell? > > Please clarify what you are asking. Are you asking if you can use > the group definitions from

Re: [OpenAFS] other-realm groups in ACLs?

Adam Megacz wrote: Does AFS support the use of pts groups in a remote (trusted) cell on ACLs in the home cell? Please clarify what you are asking. Are you asking if you can use the group definitions from cell A on ACLs in cell B? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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

Kim Kimball wrote: SAN symptoms, for those interested I'm seeing SCSI command timeouts and UFS log timeouts (on vice partitions using the SAN for storage) on LUNS used for vicep's on the Hitachi USP, and was seeing them also on the 9585 until a recent configuration change. At first I though