Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Edgecombe
dave first wrote: Yes, I am in full agreement about NOT using the root filesystem for non-system data. In the department to which I belong, there's a bit of a religious war about this. But these systems will be under my control, and I fully subscribe to the notion of keeping application data se

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread dave first
Yes, I am in full agreement about NOT using the root filesystem for non-system data. In the department to which I belong, there's a bit of a religious war about this. But these systems will be under my control, and I fully subscribe to the notion of keeping application data separate from the syst

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 01:39:26PM -0800, dave first wrote: > Jaime - Excellent information. Thank you. I've been living in a > Bottom line seems to be that /vicepXX must be mounted filesystems and > not just directories created under the root. > > Correct? Not quite. During installation you

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread dave first
Jaime - Excellent information. Thank you. I've been living in a vacuum wrt AFS, and it's nice to have a dialog about the capabilities and possibilities. I've already moved a test volume successfully, but that was a on a test system. Now I need to understand physical volumes as they relate to an

Re: [OpenAFS] Communication errors on volume operations

2008-12-04 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Matt Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bryn, > > Is this a DAFS file server? If so, then probably a known behavior, > although I'm not certain it should be seen in 1.5.55 (Tom?) As you imply, > the volume can in that case be salvaged and then brought on-l

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread Esther Filderman
On 12/4/08, dave first <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I did this under the quickly departing tutelage of the admin > who has left, and don't really understand some nuances about the > structure yet. You will learn, grasshopper. > So, the question then becomes, can I just use directorie

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread dave first
David, Thank you for responding. Actually, I do have the server up and running under OpenAFS on Linux. However, I did this under the quickly departing tutelage of the admin who has left, and don't really understand some nuances about the structure yet. For example, the old Transarc AFS server ha

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread Esther Filderman
On 12/3/08, dave first <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to AFS. I have inherited an old, crusty, but functional > Transarc AFS cluster of three servers running on Solaris 5.8. > Unfortunately, the hardware has become unstable. I have installed > OpenAFS server on Linux which c

Re: [OpenAFS] About AFS performance over WAN

2008-12-04 Thread Matt Benjamin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm personally interested in SCTP, but having followed the tsvwg and other development channels for more than a year, I'm not convinced that SCTP is going to provide an immediate term viable bulk transport, though it may turn out to be a brilliant ch

Re: [OpenAFS] About AFS performance over WAN

2008-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Dale Ghent wrote: > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Rainer Toebbicke wrote: > >> With unlimited development resources AFS would deserve a better suited >> protocol than TCP, in practice with a little more realism my gut >> feeling is that at least some more brain should be devoted to >> improving plai

Re: [OpenAFS] Communication errors on volume operations

2008-12-04 Thread Matt Benjamin
Hi Bryn, Is this a DAFS file server? If so, then probably a known behavior, although I'm not certain it should be seen in 1.5.55 (Tom?) As you imply, the volume can in that case be salvaged and then brought on-line (bos salvage -forceDAFS). Matt Bryn Divey wrote: Hi all, I've compiled

Re: [OpenAFS] About AFS performance over WAN

2008-12-04 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Rainer Toebbicke wrote: > >> With unlimited development resources AFS would deserve a better suited >> protocol than TCP, in practice with a little more realism my gut feeling is >> that at least so

[OpenAFS] Communication errors on volume operations

2008-12-04 Thread Bryn Divey
Hi all, I've compiled OpenAFS 1.5.55 to debs to check out the read/write disconnected operation stuff, and I'm getting errors on various volume operations. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vos create ubuntu-dfs.hostname.com /vicepa root.cell -cell hostname.com Failed to end the transaction on t