[OpenAFS] it displays ? marks in front of files info.

2009-06-02 Thread TIARA System Man
hi guys, recently, i found i use hctseng user to list sysman user directory. it appeared many ? marks. like below : [hcts...@ sysman]$ ls -l total 20 ?- ? ?? ?? a.out drwxrwxr-x 14 sysman sysman 6144 Apr 10 14:20 sysman ?- ? ??

[OpenAFS] Resilience

2009-06-02 Thread Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)
One of our (3) AFS servers has a mounted read-write volume which must be available 24x7 to our batch system. The server is as resilient is we can make it, but still it may fail outside normal working hours for some reason. For technical reasons related to the software installed on the volume it

[OpenAFS] Status of cache after server restart

2009-06-02 Thread Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)
I would like to know what is the status of the AFS cache on client machines if an AFS server is restarted. Is the cache status for volumes mounted from that server marked invalid/out-of-date, so that access to such volumes requires a refresh from the server ? Jonathan Wheeler e-Science Centre

Re: [OpenAFS] Resilience

2009-06-02 Thread Hartmut Reuter
Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: One of our (3) AFS servers has a mounted read-write volume which must be available 24x7 to our batch system. The server is as resilient is we can make it, but still it may fail outside normal working hours for some reason. For technical reasons related to the

[OpenAFS] freebsd client

2009-06-02 Thread ENEM | Hans Melgers
Hello, I was wondering if there have been any changes in the status of the openafs freebsd client, is it ready for production now ? Regards, Hans

Re: [OpenAFS] Status of cache after server restart

2009-06-02 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: I would like to know what is the status of the AFS cache on client machines if an AFS server is restarted. Is the cache status for volumes mounted from that server marked invalid/out-of-date, so that access to such volumes requires a refresh from the server ?

Re: [OpenAFS] Resilience

2009-06-02 Thread anne salemme
if you're aiming for 100% guaranteed availability for those RW volumes, a few other considerations: - make the volumes as small as practical, to keep the 'vos' operations short - make your afs database servers equally robust - make sure your network people provide the same level of

Re: [OpenAFS] Resilience

2009-06-02 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: One of our (3) AFS servers has a mounted read-write volume which must be available 24x7 to our batch system. The server is as resilient is we can make it, but still it may fail outside normal working hours for some reason. For technical reasons related to the

Re: [OpenAFS] it displays ? marks in front of files info.

2009-06-02 Thread Harald Barth
is this normal? Yes. does list permission can read file size? thank you. To do stat() system call on files, r(ead) permission ist needed. The file size is part of that information from stat(), see 'man 2 stat'. Harald. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] Resilience

2009-06-02 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: One of our (3) AFS servers has a mounted read-write volume which must be available 24x7 to our batch system. The server is as resilient is we can make it, but still it may fail outside normal working hours for some reason. For technical reasons related to the

Re: [OpenAFS] freebsd client

2009-06-02 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:12 AM, ENEM | Hans Melgers h...@enem.nl wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there have been any changes in the status of the openafs freebsd client, is it ready for production now ? It depends which version of FreeBSD, but we are distributing a stable and working

Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to start afs on OpenSuSE 11.1

2009-06-02 Thread Karen Eldredge
This should be fixed in the openafs code - the right fix would probably be to add a configure check for the availability of do_signal, and define out the probing code if it's not available, similar to what was done for init_mm. I haven't had luck with changing the SuSE kernel yet, so if you

Re: [OpenAFS] freebsd client

2009-06-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:03:39PM -0400, Derrick Brashear wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:12 AM, ENEM | Hans Melgers h...@enem.nl wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there have been any changes in the status of the openafs freebsd client, is it ready for production now ? It depends

Re: [OpenAFS] freebsd client

2009-06-02 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
Hi, The client supports 7.0, on i386 and amd64 (and a number of prior releases). There is at least one significant open issue at 7.x and 8-CURRENT, that hopefully will be resolved fairly soon. Matt - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu To: Derrick Brashear