Re: [OpenAFS] openafs on Fedora 12?

2009-12-09 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message <4be2a1da-0c38-4313-9e2d-c39965b4c...@inf.ed.ac.uk>,Simon Wilkinson writes: >Fedora 12 has IMA enabled in its kernel by default. OpenAFS can't >currently co-exist with IMA, because IMA fundamentally breaks the core >interface that OpenAFS uses it access its disk cache. There is ongo

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs on Fedora 12?

2009-12-09 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 9 Dec 2009, at 14:29, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: so one could always use the memcache for a workaround in the short term. seems fine here. Yeh - if you aren't using disk cache, you'll be fine. The alternative is that we modify the OpenAFS cache manager to use an alternative, bu

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs on Fedora 12?

2009-12-09 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message ,Simon Wilkinson writes: >> i still wonder if the cache manager shouldnt open a single file >> (sparse >> mode) and just seek/read/write. this would solve a couple of >> potential >> problems with other filesystems as well. > >Better still would be using a raw partition, as that wo