On 2012-09-26 at 18:20, Jason Edgecombe ( ja...@rampaginggeek.com ) said:
Hi everyone,
I'm using a program called "depot", which I think used to be included with
IBM/Transarc AFS. I'm planning to migrated from RHEL5 with cfengine to RHEL6
with puppet. I use depot to manage many folders of sym
On 2012-03-08 at 15:49, Dave Botsch ( bot...@cnf.cornell.edu ) said:
I just set the sysname to whatever I want it to be. Cfengine sticks a
"/usr/bin/fs sysname -newsys" command in the /etc/init.d/openafs-client
script in the startup) section
Interesting. What are you setting the sysname to in t
On 2012-02-27 at 17:00, Lars Schimmer ( l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at ) said:
Hi!
Maybe I missed a point or two, but I wish I could remove and unmount a
/vicepX partition while fileserver keeps on running.
The last weeks I needed to redo our iSCSI storages and that implies a lot of
mount/unmount/
On 2011-08-29 at 19:39, Jason Edgecombe ( ja...@rampaginggeek.com ) said:
I was told that noatime is bad for an AFS cache partition because AFS uses
the atime to know when the cache entry was last accessed.
Oops, looks like you're right, unless someone more knowledgeable says
otherwise.
--an
Just to add some more datapoints to the discussion...
Our webservers are HP DL360G5's, 14GB RAM. Pair of 36GB 15K 2.5" SAS
drives in RAID-1. /usr/vice/cache is ext2 with noatime,nodiratime. These
machines run dovecot IMAP, apache with lots of php applications, RT, and
vsftpd serving anon and
On 2011-06-17 at 12:07, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
This issue sounds rather similar (superficially, at least) to one
we've been seeing on FreeBSD clients. When you say that "something
has changed ...", is that
On 2011-06-14 at 14:00, Nicolas Bourbaki ( ncl.bourb...@gmail.com ) said:
Hi guys,
I'd like to know if the Ubuntu ppa repository has been upgraded to
offer the latest 1.6pre6 version of OpenAFS.
I'm having odd behavior when using the latest version available on the
following ppa:
- http://ppa.l
On 2011-05-20 at 14:10, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Fri, 20 May 2011 13:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
...or it's that you're writing to the same disk twice as much. If the
cache and /vicepX are on the same disk, it seems pretty intuitive that
it
On 2011-05-19 at 14:19, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Thu, 19 May 2011 14:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
You can certainly get close if your disk for the disk cache is fast
enough. I've seen close to 80MB/s with 15K SAS under ideal conditions.
Re: client and s
On 2011-05-19 at 13:25, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:14:03 +0100
Hugo Monteiro wrote:
- Low performance and high discrepancy between test results
Transfer rates (only a few) hardly touched 30MB/s between the server and
a client sitting on the same netwo
On 2011-04-15 at 16:46, Russ Allbery ( r...@stanford.edu ) said:
Patricia O'Reilly writes:
Is there any problem connecting 1.6 clients with 1.4.14 servers?
Nope. Works fine. Overall, 1.6 clients seem to be working as well or
better than 1.4 clients, although someone has reported reproducib
On 2011-04-06 at 14:41, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:29:58 -0400 (EDT)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
No; I didn't even think that was ours to handle. So, if you stop the
client, the AFS 'mount' entry stays there? I assume the multiple AFS
line
On 2011-04-06 at 14:25, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
One observation regarding 1.6.0pre4: In stop'ing and start'ing the
client via the init script, AFS shows up as being mounted several
times in the output
On 2011-04-06 at 16:06, Simon Wilkinson ( s...@inf.ed.ac.uk ) said:
On 4 Apr 2011, at 22:18, Garrett Wollman wrote:
Over the past few days I have performed several benchmarks comparing
the performance of various OpenAFS server and client configurations.
Thanks for this - it makes for really
On 2011-03-29 at 20:10, Chris Jones ( christopher.rob.jo...@cern.ch ) said:
Hi,
Chris-Jones-Macbook-Pro /Library/OpenAFS/Tools/bin > ./cmdebug localhost
Lock afs_discon_lock status: (none_waiting, 1 read_locks(pid:1133))
** Cache entry @ 0xd35161a0 for 0.1.16777996.1 [dynroot]
locks: (none_w
On 2011-03-07 at 11:27, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:23:34 -0500 (EST)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
Volume name in question is pub.m.rpmforge. The .backup volume in
particular. This volume was backup'd this morning at approx. 0005, with
this output fro
On 2011-03-07 at 11:03, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:42:04 -0500 (EST)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
Tue Mar 1 00:02:12 2011 VReadVolumeDiskHeader: Couldn't open header for volume
536871061 (errno 2)
means the volume doesn't exist. It's not th
On 2011-03-04 at 16:30, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:20:34 -0500 (EST)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
The first issue you reported had problems much earlier before the
log messages you gave. Did anything happen to the backup volume
before that? No messages
On 2011-03-04 at 15:59, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
What about the command immediately preceding this? Anything odd about
it; time it took to execute, or any warnings/errors/etc?
The commands before that all completed in 30 seconds or less. No messages
other than that.
I
Ok, an update to the problem I alluded to this morning.
Volume name in question is pub.m.rpmforge. The .backup volume in
particular. This volume was backup'd this morning at approx. 0005, with
this output from vos backup:
Failed to end the transaction on the rw volume 536873153
: server
Fyi, I have another .backup volume that started having the same issues
this morning on a different machine under 32-bit linux with 1.6.0pre2.
I'll gather some more details later today.
This same fileserver had no issues running 1.5.77, 1.5.78, or 1.6.0pre1
(well, other than vos backup not wo
On 2011-03-03 at 11:05, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:23:34 -0600
Andrew Deason wrote:
The problem with the recovery is (probably) that the salvager doesn't
properly inform the fileserver when it destroys a volume, so the
erroneous volume state prevents y
On 2011-03-01 at 22:23, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:38:07 -0500 (EST)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
(and I think you meant dafssync-debug. I may not have mentioned that.)
fssync-debug should detect a DAFS fileserver and execute dafssync-debug
for you.
If I
On 2011-03-01 at 20:27, Andrew Deason ( adea...@sinenomine.net ) said:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:57:50 -0500 (EST)
Andy Cobaugh wrote:
This has happened at least once at work on Solaris 10 x86 with a
.backup volume, as seen above, and at least once on one of my home
machines on 64bit linux with
I have comments interspersed with log file snippets in a plain text file
here:
http://users.bx.psu.edu/~phalenor/problem
I'm not sure what led to the initial problems with the .backup volume. We
vos backup every volume every night.
This has happened at least once at work on Solaris 10
On 2011-02-21 at 16:36, Jeff Blaine ( jbla...@kickflop.net ) said:
Best I can tell, the thread ended with this message from
David Boyes @ SNA:
http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2010-January/032816.html
Anything? Anyone? Did we get anywhere? Just looking to
snarf someone's SMF stu
On 2011-02-18 at 12:33, Ken Dreyer ( ktdre...@ktdreyer.com ) said:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
wrote:
On 2/18/11 14:14 , Andy Cobaugh wrote:
Just curious why you're not just using the stock pam_krb5? At least in a
plain jane krb5 environment, pam_krb5 has w
On 2011-02-18 at 11:16, Ken Dreyer ( ktdre...@ktdreyer.com ) said:
I would like to try to get Russ's pam_afs_session into Fedora/EPEL.
Since OpenAFS itself is not permitted for inclusion (I think it's
because "no kernel modules"?), I'm hoping that there will still be
utility to at least having pa
So far so good. Deployed 1.6.0pre2 on 64 and 32 bit CentOS. Clients with
disk cache and memcache, as well as two DAFS fileservers.
We've been running a mixture of 1.5.77, 1.5.78, and 1.6.0pre1 for some
time now, on OSX, Solaris SPARC and x86, and 32/64-bit Linux, as both DAFS
fileservers and
On 2011-01-28 at 22:38, Gary Gatling ( gsgat...@eos.ncsu.edu ) said:
I am going to use RHEL 6 for the fileserver. I have a test VM up and working
with openafs 1.4.14 to start with. Seems to work ok with ext4. The version of
VMware we are using is VMware ESX. We pay full price for that. I think
On 2011-01-21 at 11:36, Stephen Joyce ( step...@physics.unc.edu ) said:
Hello,
Has anyone written a script or utility to add/remove PTS entries (either
membership in PTS groups or actual existence of the PTS user account would be
acceptable) from an external database, based on date?
My AFS c
On 2011-01-17 at 16:17, Stephen Quinney ( step...@jadevine.org.uk ) said:
I am having some problems with trying to use k5start to maintain a
kerberos credential cache for a long-running daemon. In particular,
it's maintaining the AFS tokens which is problematic.
I noticed on http://www.eyrie.org
On 2011-01-14 at 11:43, Lewis, Dave ( le...@nki.rfmh.org ) said:
Hi,
I'm wondering what is a reasonable size for large AFS volumes. I
understand that the maximum size of a volume is about 2 TB (assuming
that the partition is at least that size). From a practical standpoint,
is it reasonable to h
On 2011-01-06 at 16:55, Derrick J Brashear ( sha...@openafs.org ) said:
Please assist the gatekeepers by deploying this release and providing
positive or negative feedback. Bug reports should be filed to
openafs-b...@openafs.org . Reports of success should be sent to
openafs-info@openafs.org
On 2010-12-20 at 19:34, Dirk Heinrichs ( dirk.heinri...@altum.de ) said:
Am 20.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Booker Bense:
My 2 cents... Outside of a few very specialized apps, putting software
in AFS is a losing proposition these days. Since local disk space is
growing so fast, there really is little
On 2010-10-18 at 13:15, David Bear ( david.b...@asu.edu ) said:
Indeed there is a /usr/vice/etc/cacheinfo.
what concerns me as that this set of rpm's has different configuration files
than the 1.4.10 rpms that I used to use. The /etc/init.d/openafs-client
file sources /etc/sysconfig/openafs ins
On 2010-10-14 at 11:08, David Bear ( david.b...@asu.edu ) said:
I removed openafs 1.4.10 -- and installed the 1.4.12 repository rpm.
However, when I try to do a yum install openafs it still wants to grab the
1.4.10 version. I look in /etc/yum.repos.d and see the openafs.repo file
there that point
On 2010-10-01 at 21:50, Russ Allbery ( r...@stanford.edu ) said:
Russ Allbery writes:
Oh, I understand now. pam_unix fails, and you were expecting pam_krb5
to return success (blindly) to counter pam_unix's failure, but since
pam_krb5 (correctly) returns PAM_IGNORE for users about which it has
On 2010-10-01 at 20:30, Russ Allbery ( r...@stanford.edu ) said:
pam_permit of course fixes it because it basically disables the entire
account stack. Just deleting everything out of the account stack would
presumably also fix it.
The account stack needs /something/ in it or it fails complete
On 2010-10-01 at 19:03, Russ Allbery ( r...@stanford.edu ) said:
account [default=ignore ignore=ignore success=ok] pam_krb5.so debug
That doesn't look like anything that would ever be generated by default
and it isn't in the docs. I wonder if that's causing your problem. PAM
stacks can
On 2010-10-01 at 10:04, Russ Allbery ( r...@stanford.edu ) said:
Andy Cobaugh writes:
Two, I'm guessing this is debian?
No, it's not Debian, although the common-* stuff made it look that way.
But that's the Red Hat pam_krb5.
I've had issues making this work with GSSAP
On 2010-10-01 at 11:52, Jonathan S Billings ( jsbil...@umich.edu ) said:
When installed, along with the "dkms" package
(http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/dkms.html) and
the GCC compiler, it will automatically compile and install a new openafs.ko
every time you insta
On 2010-10-01 at 17:46, Claudio Prono ( claudio.pr...@atpss.net ) said:
/etc/pam.d/common-account
account requisite pam_unix2.so
account requiredpam_krb5.so use_first_pass
ignore_unknown_principals
account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account requiredpam_ldap.so
On 2010-10-01 at 08:39, David Bear ( david.b...@asu.edu ) said:
It seems that once a year I end up getting a kernel update that breaks afs
and then I need to install again... but with a fixed kmod -- or something
else. I know a lot can and should be scripted -- but I've never taken the
time. So I
On 2010-09-30 at 21:00, Robert Milkowski ( mi...@task.gda.pl ) said:
On 30/09/2010 15:12, Andy Cobaugh wrote:
I don't think anybody has mentioned the block level compression in ZFS
yet. With simple lzjb compression (zfs set compression=on foo), our AFS
home directories see ~
I don't think anybody has mentioned the block level compression in ZFS yet.
With simple lzjb compression (zfs set compression=on foo), our AFS home
directories see ~1.75x compression. That's an extra 1-2TB of disk that we don't
need to store. Of course that makes balancing vice partitions inte
On 2010-06-18 at 20:08, Mattias Pantzare ( pant...@ludd.ltu.se ) said:
But maybe the CellServeDB is not really the problem, the problem is
that the client will list all sites in it by default. What if we just
changed the default to not list sites other than the default site
(that the installatio
On 2010-04-14 at 11:23, Jeffrey Altman ( jalt...@secure-endpoints.com ) said:
On 4/14/2010 10:51 AM, Steve Simmons wrote:
On Apr 13, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
I'm a long-time fan of having a switch that causes tools to dump their data in
an easy-to-machine-parse format. That i
On 2010-04-07 at 19:38, Simon Wilkinson ( s...@inf.ed.ac.uk ) said:
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. Unfortunatel
On 2010-03-18 at 08:55, jonathan.whee...@stfc.ac.uk (
jonathan.whee...@stfc.ac.uk ) said:
Can someone say what would be maximum possible size of an AFS volume ?
Are there any limits imposed by AFS, or are the limits
filesystem/partition dependent ? To be more specific, I am talking
about a volu
On 2009-07-29 at 14:07, Adeyemi Adesanya ( y...@slac.stanford.edu ) said:
Hi There.
We've had a long standing issue with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and I just wanted to
check with folks to see if anyone has solved it. We are able to perform
Kerberos SSH logins to 10.5 clients using the SSH GSSAPI op
I recently ran into a situation where I had a process on linux that gets
pags probably 10 times per minute on linux (dovecot, fwiw). After 3 weeks
of uptime after upgrading afs to 1.4.7, we had to reboot the machine, as
we were no longer able to create new pags.
This is on debian stable, ker
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall someone mentioning that
there were certain cases when running fastrestart where volumes might end
up being attached even if they need salvaging, leading to data
loss/corruption?
I would say any benefit you see in running fastrestart would be take
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