[OpenAFS] git.openafs.org RSS/Atom feeds broken?

2013-09-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, I'm following openafs-stable-1_6_x commits via RSS, but since some time (don't know exactly), I don't get any messages anymore using different readers, although the last commit is only 9 hours ago. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs Tel: +49 (0)2471 209385 | Mobil: +49 (0)176 34473913

[OpenAFS] Re: fileserver user CPS duration

2013-09-03 Thread Andrew Deason
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:20:24 -0400 (EDT) step...@physics.unc.edu wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. > > The use case I was thinking of is exactly what you mention: revoking > someone's rights by removing them from a group. Right or wrong, users' > expectations seem to be "I removed a user from a

[OpenAFS] Re: [ OpenAFS ] 1.6.x / module compilation / 3.11

2013-09-03 Thread Andrew Deason
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:24:01 -0500 Andrew Deason wrote: > Nicolas, if you want to get going right this minute, it may work to just > go into src/afs/LINUX, and replace all instances of d_count with > d_lockref.count, and d_lock with d_lockref.lock. We'll get some autoconf > glue and such for opena

[OpenAFS] Re: [ OpenAFS ] 1.6.x / module compilation / 3.11

2013-09-03 Thread Andrew Deason
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:28:12 +0200 nicolas prochazka wrote: > hello, > it seems tha't > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=98474236f72e5a8b89c14cd7c74f0bb77a4b1a99 > recent change > cause openafs git tree module ( 1.6.x) does not comile anymore with kernel

[OpenAFS] Re: building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread Andrew Deason
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:43:55 -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > Yes, I certainly believe there is an existing base that currently > prevents any change. But that doesn't mean we have to keep letting > this happen. Creating an admin API library would be nice but not > doable in the short t

Re: [OpenAFS] [ OpenAFS ] 1.6.x / module compilation / 3.11

2013-09-03 Thread Marc Dionne
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:28 AM, nicolas prochazka wrote: > hello, > it seems tha't > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=98474236f72e5a8b89c14cd7c74f0bb77a4b1a99 > recent change > cause openafs git tree module ( 1.6.x) does not comile anymore with kernel >

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: fileserver user CPS duration

2013-09-03 Thread stephen
Andrew, Thanks for the explanation. The use case I was thinking of is exactly what you mention: revoking someone's rights by removing them from a group. Right or wrong, users' expectations seem to be "I removed a user from a group, s/he is immediately denied access to the affected directories

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread Christof Hanke
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:43:55 -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > Yes, I certainly believe there is an existing base that currently > prevents any change. But that doesn't mean we have to keep letting > this happen. Creating an admin API library would be nice but not > doable in the short t

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
Yes, I certainly believe there is an existing base that currently prevents any change. But that doesn't mean we have to keep letting this happen. Creating an admin API library would be nice but not doable in the short term, but adding XML output to the commands for others that wish to parse outpu

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread Jakub Moscicki
True. On the other hand you should consider that this is a generalised problem: I bet there are tons of system utilities around (perl,….) which directly depend on this output. So practically speaking you are locked-in already. In our case, all parsing is anyway factored out into one single plac

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:23:47 +0200 Christof Hanke wrote: > Like Jakub, I think parsing the results of vos, fs commands is completely > sufficient. > The pathes to those binaries are not hardcoded, but can be changed quite > easily. While sufficient, it does create problems in other ways. For i

Re: [OpenAFS] file server crashed

2013-09-03 Thread Arne Wiebalck
> > openafs-server-1.4.14.1-1.1.x86_64 >>> >>> I am running openafs-server-1.6.5-145.sl6 on SL 6.0. From the >>> sl-security repo. Is there any reason to stick with 1.4.14? >> >> I just follow the specification of CERN and many tests on it passed. > > Then the guys from CERN should answer