Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Dale Pontius
At what point should the 1.5.xx series be considered "usable" on Linux? I'm thinking usable as 1.4.xx is, not trying disconnected mode, at the moment. I've tried Linux clients from 1.5.71-73 with varying amounts of success, but in no case has it been sufficient. A quick look at my domain, and y

[OpenAFS] Can client's CellServDB file rely on DNS?

2010-04-07 Thread Ken Elkabany
Hello, We have had to replace our master openafs fileserver several times. Each time we have had to go through each client and update the CellServDB file to reflect the IP address of the new replacement server. Since we always map a domain name to the master openafs fileserver, is it possible to s

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Dale Pontius writes: > At what point should the 1.5.xx series be considered "usable" on Linux? > I'm thinking usable as 1.4.xx is, not trying disconnected mode, at the > moment. I finally got a working build on Debian with 1.5.73.3 plus two additional patches (one of which has been merged and on

Re: [OpenAFS] Can client's CellServDB file rely on DNS?

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Elkabany writes: > We have had to replace our master openafs fileserver several times. Each > time we have had to go through each client and update the CellServDB > file to reflect the IP address of the new replacement server. Since we > always map a domain name to the master openafs fileserv

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 7 Apr 2010, at 19:28, Russ Allbery wrote: I agree with your general impression that up until now we've not really been there on Linux, but we seem to be stabilizing. Those of us actively developing on Linux have been running the 1.5 series for ages. The fact that other people are seei

Re: [OpenAFS] Can client's CellServDB file rely on DNS?

2010-04-07 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ken Elkabany writes: > >> We have had to replace our master openafs fileserver several times. Each >> time we have had to go through each client and update the CellServDB >> file to reflect the IP address of the new replacement server. Since w

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Dale Pontius
On 04/07/10 14:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dale Pontius writes: > > >> At what point should the 1.5.xx series be considered "usable" on Linux? >> I'm thinking usable as 1.4.xx is, not trying disconnected mode, at the >> moment. >> > I finally got a working build on Debian with 1.5.73.3 plus

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Simon Wilkinson
A year or two back I was having some odd cache issues with the stable client. I hacked the init script (This is Gentoo, by the way.) to clear the cache each time right before starting the client. And, of course, you reported these problems, and we fixed them in a later release? I'll c

Re: [OpenAFS] Can client's CellServDB file rely on DNS?

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Derrick Brashear writes: > Or name just cells you want with this behavior as e.g. > >cell.name #Whatever > instead of > >cell.name #Whatever > IP #host I didn't know you could do that. Added to the man page in: http://gerrit.openafs.org/1710 -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu)

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Wilkinson writes: > Those of us actively developing on Linux have been running the 1.5 > series for ages. The fact that other people are seeing problems would > seem to indicate that testing across a wider variety of systems is > required. Unfortunately, we don't have the time, or the syste

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Dale Pontius
On 04/07/10 14:38, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 7 Apr 2010, at 19:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> I agree with your general impression >> that up until now we've not really been there on Linux, but we seem >> to be >> stabilizing. > > Those of us actively developing on Linux have been running the 1

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Dale Pontius
On 04/07/10 14:49, Simon Wilkinson wrote: >>> >> A year or two back I was having some odd cache issues with the stable >> client. I hacked the init script (This is Gentoo, by the way.) to clear >> the cache each time right before starting the client. > > And, of course, you reported these proble

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Dale Pontius writes: > On 04/07/10 14:49, Simon Wilkinson wrote: >> fs whereis . will tell you. > Thanks, that does give the server name. Now is there a command that > will give meaningful and useful (to you) information about that server? > I doubt I have any sort of shell access to any of th

[OpenAFS] Re: Linux packages for 1.5?

2010-04-07 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:14:31 -0400 Dale Pontius wrote: > > fs whereis . will tell you. > > Thanks, that does give the server name. Now is there a command that > will give meaningful and useful (to you) information about that > server? I doubt I have any sort of shell access to any of them. rxd

[OpenAFS] Shared r/w access to numerous sqlite databases: an appropriate application for AFS?

2010-04-07 Thread Brandon Simmons
I have a web application in which I would like many client web-servers to be able to read and write to many separate and modestly-sized sqlite databases, exported by a master server. Each database corresponds to an account, so we might have several concurrent users accessing an individual DB every