Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-10 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:35 AM Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > Thus I think that when one would modify the code, in large part the > > code is common, and where it isn't at least the "switch" is visible in > > there. Therefore I'm confident that the `fileserver` is still a > > viable solution. :) >

Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:20:43AM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:06 AM Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > To be clear, they do share a great bit of code (dafs was not "from > > scratch"), but there are many places that do get differential treatment in > > the source --

Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-10 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:06 AM Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > To be clear, they do share a great bit of code (dafs was not "from > scratch"), but there are many places that do get differential treatment in > the source -- look for AFS_DEMAND_ATTACH_FS preprocessor conditionals. Based on what I see:

Re: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells)

2019-03-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 12:04:04PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:43 AM Harald Barth wrote: > > > However is it still "safe" and "advised" (outside of these > > > disadvantages) to run the old `fileserver` component? > > > > I would recommend everyone to migrate

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions regarding `afsd` caching arguments (`-dcache` and `-files`)

2019-03-10 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:49:18AM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:39 PM Ciprian Dorin Craciun > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:11 PM Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > > The performance issues could be anywhere and everywhere between the > > > application being used

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Starting an server (both DB and FS) without `BOS` (e.g. on Linux with systemd)

2019-03-10 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:16 PM Jeffrey Altman wrote: > The BOS Overseer Service plays a number of roles: Just wanted to stress that `bos` is wonderful in a distributed deployment, and I'm quite surprised that until this date we don't have other "general purpose" alternatives. However as