Re: [OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

2021-01-18 Thread Neil Brown
I have 3 DB servers running 1.6.22.1. I'm planning to update hardware (with identical IP addresses) and SW to 1.8.7. Do you see a problem in updating machine for machine with some time in between, so that I have several steps in time: now : 3x 1.6.22.1 intermediate: 2x 1.6.22.1 + 1x 1.8

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS handling of deleted open files

2021-01-18 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Bruce, Off the top of my head, the "vos release" workflows I deal with all involve adding new data, not removing any. [0] So, in some cases it is prudent to send a best-effort notification to potential consumers that they may experience a pause in access, there's not a real need to specificall

[OpenAFS] Re: AFS handling of deleted open files

2021-01-18 Thread J. Bruce Fields
The one other offlist response I got was that behavior can depend on the client. I guess what I'd really be most interested in is users' perspectives: is a "vos release" something you do you routinely with no special precautions? Or do you have to, say, schedule them for times when client applica

Re: [OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

2021-01-18 Thread Harald Barth
> now : 3x 1.6.22.1 > intermediate: 2x 1.6.22.1 + 1x 1.8.7 > intermediate: 1x 1.6.22.1 + 2x 1.8.7 > final : 3x 1.8.7 I have for many years upgraded db severs in this manner. So I expect that it works this time as well. Actually we are currently runnig a mix of 1.8 and 1.6 without

Re: [OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

2021-01-18 Thread Heinz-Ado Arnolds
Dear Jeffrey and others, please allow a more general upgrade question: Jeffrey E Altman wrote on 18.01.21 17:56: ... All clients and servers running OpenAFS 1.8.[0123456] and OpenAFS 1.9.0 will fail to communicate with OpenAFS peers (clients or servers) and MUST be updated. OpenAFS 1.2.x, 1.4.

Re: [OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

2021-01-18 Thread Jeffrey E Altman
On 1/18/2021 11:46 AM, Richard Brittain (richard.britt...@dartmouth.edu) wrote: > I'm a bit confused about what versions are affected by this bug. I've got > mostly 1.8.[56] clients, which I'm upgrading now. My servers are still > running 1.6.22 and appear to be fine for vos operations between

Re: [OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

2021-01-18 Thread Richard Brittain
I'm a bit confused about what versions are affected by this bug. I've got mostly 1.8.[56] clients, which I'm upgrading now. My servers are still running 1.6.22 and appear to be fine for vos operations between themselves, and the DB servers have been restarted since this happened (but not the

Re: [OpenAFS] Help installing 1.8.6-5 from PPA on ubuntu 18.04? (unmet dependency on init-system-helpers >= 1.54)

2021-01-18 Thread Christoph Fuchs
Dear David, from https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable : "Note: to use this PPA on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic, you will need to ‘apt install init-system-helpers/bionic-backports’ " This worked for me. Best regards Christoph On 18.01.21 17:21, David Eck wrote: I have tried to upgr

[OpenAFS] Help installing 1.8.6-5 from PPA on ubuntu 18.04? (unmet dependency on init-system-helpers >= 1.54)

2021-01-18 Thread David Eck
I have tried to upgrade from openafs 1.8.0 to 1.8.6-5 on Ubuntu 18.04 to fix the recently discovered bug, using the PPA openafs/stable However, there is an unmet dependency on init-system-helpers (>= 1.54). The installed version is 1.51. So the upgrade fails. Can anyone help with instructions