Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Am 28.02.2012 18:03, schrieb Ken Dreyer: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de wrote: Hello! I'm trying to get openafs to work on Fedora 16. The rpms from rpmfusion did work with older kernel versions but failed totally with recent kernels. Hmm, what's the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Best way to debug Lost contact with file server

2012-02-29 Thread Lars Schimmer
On 29.02.2012 01:56, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Andrew Deason wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:51:48 -0800 Ken Elkabany k...@elkabany.com wrote: Off-email question: If a volume has N read replicas, how do clients choose which one to use? By default, it's effectively random.

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Am 28.02.2012 18:00, schrieb Derrick Brashear: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de wrote: Hello! if you're going to start AFS with the network not up, use dynroot. if you want to not use dynroot, don't start AFS with no network. I would gladly use -dynroot

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de writes: I would gladly use -dynroot if I could. But I always had problems with this. For historical reasons we have some symlinks in our root.afs: .rrz - .rrz.uni-koeln.de rrz - rrz.uni-koeln.de And several others man CellAlias. You should be able to

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Am 28.02.2012 18:00, schrieb Derrick Brashear: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de wrote: Hello! I'm trying to get openafs to work on Fedora 16. The rpms from rpmfusion did work with older kernel versions but failed totally with recent kernels. So I've build

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Am 29.02.2012 10:48, schrieb Berthold Cogel: I did try 'systemctl stop openafs-client.service'. This should have called the lines in openafs-client.service: ExecStop=/bin/umount /afs ExecStop=/usr/vice/etc/afsd -shutdown ExecStop=/sbin/rmmod openafs But this didn't work. The afsd

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-29 Thread Jonathan Billings
Your systemd failures are likely stemming from the fact that 1.6.0 doesn't have the /etc/mtab fix (http://gerrit.openafs.org/4825). I was running 1.6.0 on Fedora 16 and it always reported a failure even thought it started the client. There might be other problems with your system that is causing

[OpenAFS] Re: Best way to debug Lost contact with file server

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:38:04 +0100 Lars Schimmer l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote: Er, I would have thought that this would cause a group of clients deployed near each other to all prefer the same replica, which is not really random. That is, though from the point of view of a single client

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS services startup

2012-02-29 Thread Danko Antolovic
I have OpenAFS 1.6.0 built from source under RHEL 5.7. I'd like to start the client and server processes at startup, and want to be able to start/stop the services, as usual. Could someone spell out which files are involved? What startup script(s) go into /etc/rc.d/init.d ? What is the

[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS services startup

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:28:03 -0500 Danko Antolovic danto...@indiana.edu wrote: Could someone spell out which files are involved? What startup script(s) go into /etc/rc.d/init.d ? What is the right config file? The documentation seems to cover the rpm installations, but is a bit obscure

[OpenAFS] Re: Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:18:38 -0500 Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: What I think would be an even more useful feature is the ability to detach and reattach a partition on another server (via SAN storage or whatever), since there aren't very good workarounds for that. If we

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

2012-02-29 Thread Derrick Brashear
Given we have AlwaysAttach, NeverAttach would seem to be the obvious opposite. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:18:38 -0500 Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: What I think would be an even more useful feature is