Re: [OpenAFS] Stuck in Quick start guide at "fs: You don't have the required access rights on '/afs'"

2016-03-14 Thread Chas Williams
On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 23:15 +0100, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote: > > Am 12.03.2016 um 17:03 schrieb Chas Williams: > > You need to authenticate via aklog (or whatever you might using) > > or restart the servers w/o authentication so that you can add  > > yourself to the nec

Re: [OpenAFS] Stuck in Quick start guide at "fs: You don't have the required access rights on '/afs'"

2016-03-12 Thread Chas Williams
On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 13:39 +0100, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Am 07.03.2016 um 21:19 schrieb Chas Williams: > > Yes, that part of the manual is out of date when it comes to dynroot. > > You don't need to setup replication for /afs (root.afs) since it doesn't &

Re: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-08 Thread Chas Williams
Note that the osi vnode ops for linux also use the splice interface. On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 20:47 +0100, mdrslmr wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Michael Laß wrote: > > > Was the error code 32 returned from git or did the kernel log message > > change accordingly? Does your log again show a lost

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-08 Thread Chas Williams
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Chas Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 01:42 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > > > > I am given to understand that the proximal trigger is linux commit > > > http

Re: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-08 Thread Chas Williams
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 14:37 +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > So we'd simply do something like this > > > diff --git a/src/afs/afs_fetchstore.c b/src/afs/afs_fetchstore.c > index f65f40c..2630209 100644 > --- a/src/afs/afs_fetchstore.c > +++ b/src/afs/afs_fetchstore.c > @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ struct

Re: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-08 Thread Chas Williams
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 10:16 +0100, Denis Lohner wrote: > Am 08.03.2016 um 04:37 schrieb Benjamin Kaduk: > >>> There > >>> > > are many call paths in the cache manager that end up at this function, > >>> > > most of which are not prepared to properly handle an ERESTARTSYS > >>> > > return. > >>> >

Re: [OpenAFS] Stuck in Quick start guide at "fs: You don't have the required access rights on '/afs'"

2016-03-07 Thread Chas Williams
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 15:06 +0100, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote: > > Concretely, in section 2.24: > >   - So 1. basically wants to say if `-dynroot` is enabled, then 1. isn't > necessary and no alternative action needs to be performed? Anything else > isn't possible, but the reader still wonders

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-07 Thread Chas Williams
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 01:42 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Michael Dressel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > it is me who reported the issue on archlinux. Let me know if I can > help > > with reproducing the issue or anything else. > > For curiosity, could anyone explain to me what

Re: [OpenAFS] Token gone after sudo?!

2015-12-31 Thread Chas Williams
It's probably that your /etc/pam.d/sudo is using pam_keyring.so to set up a new keyring when you sudo. Do a keyctl list @s before and sudo keyctl list @s and see if the keyring is being replaced. On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 00:05 +0100, Alexander Lazarević wrote: > Hi! >  > I just recently upgraded to

Re: [OpenAFS] containers / AFS / Ubuntu - stopped working

2015-12-02 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
015, at 10:20, Neil Davies <semanticphilosop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Chas > > > > This sounds like a plan! > > > > I've got a few things to do first thing today, but I'll try and get round > > to putting up an appropriate test system and

Re: [OpenAFS] containers / AFS / Ubuntu - stopped working

2015-11-28 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
Any suggestions? I'm just wondering if there is any other bits of > functionality that the docker folks might have > broken this way - looking to see if there we, as a community, are not alone > here. > > Neil > > On 27 Nov 2015, at 19:06, Charles (Chas) Williams <3c

Re: [OpenAFS] containers / AFS / Ubuntu - stopped working

2015-11-27 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
On Nov 27, 2015, at 13:42 , Neil Davies wrote: > After this upgrade I am no longer able, in the container, able to push tokens > into the kernel - it gives a pioctl. Is there any chance you can run an strace on this? I believe that /proc was changed to read-only at some point for docker

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS client in LXC containers

2015-07-08 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
I don't think this should be too hard to fix. We would need to add namespace support (keep track of which namespace a uid came from) to struct unixuser. On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 16:03 +0100, Neil Davies wrote: On 8 Jul 2015, at 15:23, Bertrand NOEL bertrand.noel...@gmail.com wrote: Chaskiel,

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS client in LXC containers

2015-07-08 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 15:50 +, Chaskiel Grundman wrote: I don't think that this theorized fix would work for docker -- As far as I can tell from my limited use of docker, it does not create new user namespaces; root in docker is root on the host, for the purpose of writing to volumes.

Re: [OpenAFS] tapeconfig capacity parameter still limited to 2TB?

2015-05-18 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
butc actually uses a signed int32 so the tape capacity could be doubled to 4TB fairly easily (I have misplaced the patch somewhere but I could find it). That isn't quite 6.25TB but your compression ratio seems optimistic so it might be enough until the next generation of LTO.

Re: [OpenAFS] tapeconfig capacity parameter still limited to 2TB?

2015-05-18 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
You can take a look at it here: http://gerrit.openafs.org/11871 On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 20:56 +, Howard Jr, Russell A wrote: Charles, We'd be glad to test the patch if you can find it. Thanks. -- Russ -Original Message- From: Charles (Chas) Williams [mailto:3ch

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.5 on OSX

2015-04-27 Thread Charles (Chas) Williams
On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 22:42 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: I would prefer to provide an incentive for cells to upgrade their keys than cause obscure failures for modern setups. The old releases will still be available for people who want them -- we cannot claim with a straight face that we

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Encrypted connections by default in OpenAFS 1.8?

2015-03-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:09:12 -0500 Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com wrote: On 2/27/2015 9:51 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: ** file server option to force authenticated access to use encryption The client needs to be told the connection policy prior to connection establishment (that

Re: [OpenAFS] On desupporting Linux 2.4

2015-02-26 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message alpine.gso.1.10.1502251140560.3...@multics.mit.edu,Benjamin Kaduk writes: In particular, the threading library used by Linux 2.4, LinuxThreads, is Not completely accurate -- there are some 2.6 kernel based distributions with LinxuxThreads (although they hopefully provide NPTL as

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.5/1.6.10 - server segfaults during migration to rxkad-k5

2014-11-06 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:56:56 +0100 Volkmar Glauche volkmar.glau...@uniklinik-freiburg.de wrote: strace of a starting server process shows that the old KeyFile and the rxkad.keytab file are read. The segfault occurs right after closing the rxkad.keytab file. I'm not sure whether it is an

Re: [OpenAFS] Providing signed packages (was Re: any experiences with OpenAFS client ...)

2014-10-24 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:27:27 -0400 Stephen Joyce step...@email.unc.edu wrote: The openafs.org website (is that now owned by the Foundation?) provides binaries now. One could argue that it's the same risk[1], but that signing binaries creates more awareness (but I'm not sure I have the energy

Re: [OpenAFS] bos removeuser and vos dump -clone questions

2014-08-26 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:17:02 -0400 (EDT) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: Unfortunately, the master branch differs substantially from the 1.6 branch in that file (most notably, with Simon's work to allow identities in the UserList), so a direct cherry-pick fails terribly. The patch would

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-14 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:26:36 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: This generally sounds reasonable to me. But I think you want to just require a dot if the name doesn't exist in the csdb at all, so you can just put it in the local csdb if you want to use it, without needing to

Re: [OpenAFS] Fresh install with AES key only. Can't authenticate.

2014-08-08 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:21:15 +0200 GALAMBOS Daniel dan...@dancsa.hu wrote: root@afstest:~# aklog -d Authenticating to cell afstest.elte.hu (server afstest.elte.hu). Trying to authenticate to user's realm ELTE.HU. Getting tickets: afs/afstest.elte...@elte.hu Using Kerberos V5 ticket natively

Re: [OpenAFS] client behind NAT firewall

2014-08-07 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:33:02 -0400 Dale Pontius pont...@btv.ibm.com wrote: On 08/05/2014 11:08 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote: The complication is that firewalls/NATs only preserve these mappings for a finite length of time. We attempt to keep them open through regular fileserver pings, but

Re: [OpenAFS] freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-07 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:46:42 +0200 Markus Köberl markus.koeb...@tugraz.at wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2014 11:51:42 Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 8/6/2014 11:05 AM, Markus Köberl wrote: Should there not be at least one '.' after removing the one from the begin included to make sense

Re: [OpenAFS] freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-06 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:47:28 + Brandon Allbery ballb...@sinenomine.net wrote: I'm not sure how to mitigate this, though. Even if you could add a dummy AFSDB or SRV record to intercept this lookup, last night I tripped over a similar issue when rebooting my Mac: http://lpaste.net/108884

Re: [OpenAFS] freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-06 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:05:57 +0200 Markus Köberl markus.koeb...@tugraz.at wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2014 10:45:56 chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: I started working on a patch to 'fix' this issue: good to know Sadly, I got distracted by other work and didn't go any further. Negative

Re: [OpenAFS] Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:29:47 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: The first time I heard this I was a bit surprised, but that may be just because I'm very used to the 'aklog' approach and find it intuitive. You need to tell the kernel what credentials you want it to use for AFS

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 20140801094039.7390ad15eb9269df241fb...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason writes: This isn't transparent for the administrator, though. You had to install an afs-specific pam module, or specify that something runs aklog; something like that. (And of course, that's only for things that run

Re: [OpenAFS] File locking

2014-07-17 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:07:07 -0400 Todd Lewis todd_le...@unc.edu wrote: Was there some change in file locking semantics that would make sense of this? Does this application tickle a corner case error in openafs's file locking, or does more rigorous lock handling in the newer client expose a

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvageserver 1.6.1-3+deb7u1 core dump

2014-06-17 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:25:21 +0200 (CEST) Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=commitdiff;h=e8faeae6dcae0e566de2b21d53d3f78f3cc44e3f Improve JudgeEntry() detection of orphaned directories to prevent unintentional deletion of their '.' and '..' entries.

Re: [OpenAFS] Salvageserver 1.6.1-3+deb7u1 core dump

2014-06-17 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:01:42 +0200 (CEST) Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: Well, I did add a patch like: Index: openafs-1.6.9/src/vol/vol-salvage.c === --- openafs-1.6.9.orig/src/vol/vol-salvage.c2014-06-12

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and windows/unix versioning

2014-05-07 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 6 May 2014 17:04:25 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: The reason we don't do this now, and the argument for why we should continue to not do this, is that Windows releases tend to happen much more frequently than Unix releases (look at 1.6.x vs 1.7.x, though it

Re: [OpenAFS] Issue with immutable /usr

2014-05-04 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message caly6xnjvuue3tbhkmcz_tztbjxi-dj+w-kkdvokutwwzk-t...@mail.gmail.com,Jon Stanley writes: My suggestion would be to put the CellServDB (and other host-specific OpenAFS configurations) into /etc. Maybe /etc/openafs since AFS have quite a few configuration files?

Re: [OpenAFS] HP-UX support

2014-02-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:03:00 -0600 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: If nobody says anything in response so this, I assume the code will stay in the tree, unused, for a while, and after some amount of time (maybe the 2.0-ish timeframe?) the relevant code may be removed from the tree.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-24 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
Firefox does like to cache things in your profile directory (images, web pages and such) and over a WAN this might not have the desired effect. In some cases, it might be faster to simply retrieve these items again from the Internet instead of going out over the WAN back to your profile in AFS.

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-09 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 20:13:22 + Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com wrote: Along the same lines, is anybody using any of the Illumos distributions? I briefly ran an AFS fileserver on an Illumos x86 distribution (specifically OpenIndiana) inside a VM. Unsurprisingly it worked.

Re: [OpenAFS] how to tell if a dir resides in AFS volume?

2013-09-17 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:32:31 +0800 shuaijie wang wangshuai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there any method to check if a dir resides in AFS volume? Since AFS can be mounted in any local logical path, simply checking prefix /afs seems not sufficient for all the cases. So is there any system

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:23:47 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de 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

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
sufficiently high-level to be easily applied and understood as it follows the same logic as the CLI that admins use with a shell. kuba -- On Sep 3, 2013, at 2:13 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:23:47 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha

Re: [OpenAFS] Help installing openafs-1.6.5 on sunx86: bosserver: fatal: libkrb5.so.1

2013-08-06 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
A caution, our custom (for various technical reasons) krb5 binaries lacked thread support on Solaris. This will cause spurious crashes. They were built with the SUNWSpro compiler but we forgot to provide the -mt option (which basically just does -D_REENTRANT as I recall). I don't know what gcc

Re: [OpenAFS] Fstab options for AFS on SSDs

2013-08-01 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:40:14 +0200 Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl wrote: Hi folks, Recently I've started using SSDs in both servers and workstations and this article -- https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization -- offers some suggestions on which options to use in /etc/fstab, e.g.

Re: [OpenAFS] tapeconfig settings for LTO-5 tape drive

2013-05-31 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:09:33 -0400 John Sopko so...@cs.unc.edu wrote: I believe the tape label command is reporting 2 TB not 2PB: 2147483648 2147483648 x 1k = a 2 followed by 12 digits or Terabytes. Duh. You're right. Anyway I did some testing to prove the limit is 2TB's and also to test

Re: [OpenAFS] tapeconfig settings for LTO-5 tape drive

2013-05-28 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:56:07 -0400 John Sopko so...@cs.unc.edu wrote: According to the docs and the output from butc the max tape size in the /usr/afs/backup/tapeconfig file is 2TB. I set to 8TB and labeled a tape and it appears to be limited to 2TB as shown below. There are a few afs_int32's

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: byte-range lock errors

2013-05-20 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
Ignoring the actual byte-range locking issue, this is actually a separate issue. OpenAFS does try to rate limit these messages but only when they come from the same process/pid consistently. Unfortunately, firefox appears to be threaded (in some fashion) and the multiple writers keep tripping

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-27 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message CACxoJuWvJcUkE6v3pQ7XDwyNB3iOHGSbvvqr-tbUkKa9USuT=w...@mail.gmail.com,Jonathan Billings writes: --20cf3079b5ea05e52b04d8d8ec8f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Debian has ~always had separate client

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-26 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:58:18 -0400 Steve Simmons s...@umich.edu wrote: Without meaning to insult the average system administrator, installing AFS client on the servers is a recipe for creeping disaster. It works fine for a year, then a new guy takes over who doesn't really understand AFS,

Re: [OpenAFS] Can't do a vos move

2013-03-25 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 20130325183340.ga28...@calhariz.com,Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz writes: Starting transaction on source volume 537817505 ... done Allocating new volume id for clone of volume 537817505 ... done Cloning source volume 537817505 ... done Ending the transaction on the source volume

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
You need the kernel extension if you want to store your afs tokens. This really isn't a problem in practice though since I generally just run -localauth when I am root on the server. In message CAMHoRJgX4m=iPKKqRxh63kgmNTZT-Q426DA6v=Dap==nfvv...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick Brashear writes: on

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu problem

2013-02-08 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:56:16 -0500 Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: I didn't say all, I said many. And yes, there are many sites on the internet that cannot be accessed reliably from many OSes that do PMTUD, particularly if you have some pipe between you and the site that is smaller than

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu problem

2013-02-07 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:36:18 + (GMT) Antony Mayi antonym...@yahoo.com wrote: yes, I meant adjusting client interface MTU. I already tried the -rxmaxmtu without any success. you might want to try -rxmagfrags as well. just set this to 1 to keep afs from trying to send packets that are

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: bos blockscanner

2013-01-28 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:42:23 -0500 Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: Should the blockscanner feature be removed? it should certainly be considered for removal from 1.7. it can stick around in 1.6 since removing it wouldn't really be a bugfix.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: tcpoob timeline

2012-10-31 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:31:46 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: It's possible for a UDP-based protocol to behave very well, and in some situations exceed TCP. I don't think Rx should be such a protocol, since I think we should be focusing on making filesystems instead of

Re: [OpenAFS] the future

2012-10-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 20121001044831.gk25...@us.grid.coop,Troy Benjegerdes writes: Can anyone who has experience migrating to/from OpenAFS from/to anything else in the last 2-3 years please comment? If there's really something free, functional, and already included then I'd like to know what the heck it

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: buildbot and packages

2012-09-18 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:12:20 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: That could interfere with versions like 1.6.2.1 that sometimes occur. Conceptually I could imagine something like maybe 1.6.2.0.120917, but I don't remember what all the various version rules are for deb and rpm.

Re: [OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-18 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:39:45 -0400 Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: What documentation on libtool/autoconf/etc/whatever should I be looking at to make '--enable-checking' and '--enable-debug' be the default when I do './regen ./configure make check' so I can submit a patch for

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposal: OpenAFS foundation to develop AFS server appliance

2012-09-04 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:52 -0400 Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com wrote: On 9/1/2012 3:03 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: In message 50424587.6010...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes: The Elders have engaged in discussions with the major operating system

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [AFS3-std] Re: IBM will not re-license OpenAFS .xg files

2012-09-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
oddly enough (and i am sure this is my fault) i dont scan itunes for my latest openafs news. On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 21:23:11 -0400 Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: Sure. But version 1.0 (not 1.6) was released in January :) Derrick On Sep 1, 2012, at 19:40, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [AFS3-std] Re: IBM will not re-license OpenAFS .xg files

2012-09-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 5041328c.2090...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes: On 8/31/2012 5:44 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: Since I can't kinit on my cell phone, how do I prove my identity? Assuming your cell phone runs iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/app/iyfs/id491921617?mt=3D3D8 i would

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposal: OpenAFS foundation to develop AFS server appliance

2012-09-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 50424587.6010...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes: End user organizations have over the last decade asked their storage vendors to integrate AFS services into the storage products they purchase. The answer has consistently been 'not interested'. I suspect the answer that you

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [AFS3-std] Re: IBM will not re-license OpenAFS .xg files

2012-09-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
Derrick On Sep 1, 2012, at 14:45, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mi= l wrote: In message 5041328c.2090...@your-file-system.com,Jeffrey Altman writes: On 8/31/2012 5:44 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: Since I can't kinit on my cell phone, how do I prove my identity? =20

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [AFS3-std] Re: IBM will not re-license OpenAFS .xg files

2012-08-31 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:38:43 -0400 Dave Botsch bot...@cnf.cornell.edu wrote: When I am asked why we are continuing to use AFS in our local department here at Cornell (the Cornell NanoScale Facility), I only need mention a couple of features... distributed file system, cross platform, security

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS ipv6 migration path

2012-08-20 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:00:55 -0500 Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: 1) implement a header-file or library based approach to abstract all use of IPv4 addresses to an opaque 32 bit identifier. at this point you might as well convert the ipv4 address to a struct sockaddr. why invent yet

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux client connection timed out after server failure

2012-08-16 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:19:09 -0400 Bob Hoffman hoff...@cs.pitt.edu wrote: On 8/16/12 10:53 AM, Derrick Brashear wrote: it should recover in 2 hours, which is the vldb refresh time. Apparently that doesn't work for me. After six days, I was still getting Connection timed out. i had the

Re: [OpenAFS] Initial configuring openafs server: got some obscured errors

2012-05-29 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:46:09 -0700 ayvango ayva...@zoho.com wrote: Do they retain 22 symbols on volumes 8 symbols on usernames limitations? usernames do not have to be 8 characters but your unix system of choice might have an 8 character limit for usernames which will make for a confusing

Re: [OpenAFS] unknown RPC error (-1765328370) while getting AFS tickets

2012-03-27 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
specifically, your /etc/krb5.conf should have allow_weak_crypto = true in the [libdefaults] section. i tried to add this info to the afslore wiki but it didnt seem to take. On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:49:53 -0400 Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OpenAFS] WAN speed

2012-03-22 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:42:16 +0100 Lars Schimmer l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-03-22 00:53, jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: Forgot one thing: ... For me the slowness in WAN is about latency. ... I've tried to address

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

2012-03-08 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:57:10 -0600 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: I thought we did keep the *_linux26 sysname, since there are no significant technical differences between 2.6 vs 3.* so far. What version and packaging, etc are we talking about here? the redhat packaging appears

Re: [OpenAFS] recommended UFS parameters for cache partition?

2011-12-27 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:16:16 -0500 (EST) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: (Or should I just not worry about it and assume that any potential improvements would be lost in the noise?) other than i believe you still cannot use journaling on the caching partition, there isnt much to do.

Re: [OpenAFS] Happy Holidays -- Another year in the life of OpenAFS

2011-12-23 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
i would hazard that content is more important than 'ease of use'. it really doesnt matter if you can carry the manual with you if it doesnt provide any useful help. there is nothing to prevent the current docbook from being rendered into quarto (i suspect you meant folio since quarto would be

Re: [OpenAFS] UID conflicts

2011-12-20 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:33:01 -0800 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: You can use different local UIDs and AFS PTS IDs and everything will continue to work properly. AFS doesn't actually care what your local UID is; it will use whatever your PTS ID is for such things as file ownership.

Re: [OpenAFS] UID conflicts

2011-12-19 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 2586a1048152be4d861e64a98700ad420548c...@nki-mail.nki.rfmh.org,Lewis, Dave writes: These user accounts were created long ago on a server for which the system daemon UIDs were 100. This is the first system on which we have seen such a UID conflict. We're planning to have more

Re: [OpenAFS] Install OpenAFS on ppc64?

2011-08-23 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
notice when I used 'file' to check those binary files, more of them are reported as 32-bit. The module itself is 64-bit.) Regards, Ting-jen 於 一,2011-08-22 於 13:08 -0400,chas williams - CONTRACTOR 提到: i believe we have one ppc64 machine running openafs. the biggest deal was to make sure

Re: [OpenAFS] Install OpenAFS on ppc64?

2011-08-22 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
i believe we have one ppc64 machine running openafs. the biggest deal was to make sure that the binaries were built 64-bit. the 32-bit versions of the ucontext syscalls are broken/incomplete. just based on your errors though it looks like the afs module isnt loaded? On Mon, 22 Aug 2011

Re: [OpenAFS] Is locking (flock) on OpenAFS reliable?

2011-07-05 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:52:55 -0400 Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com wrote: As far as I am aware, the 1.4.x exclusive lock processing on UNIX is broken in that it does not properly ensure that file data modified under ... the lease, the file server will release the lock. If a file

Re: [OpenAFS] /usr/sbin/backup

2011-07-05 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message d246ebed-bcc4-488d-846a-b4e80eda9...@desy.de,Peter van der Reest writes: PS: I personally do not see the need for a name change on our part, CODA could have a codabackup? as you may know, coda and afs share a common ancestry so i am surpised this is the only name conflict. apparently

Re: [OpenAFS] /usr/sbin/backup

2011-07-04 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message cad3fbmwn1fpxwxxc+32p02jfqyxxergszzz2g4gzxq0hmuh...@mail.gmail.com,Ken Dreyer writes: The /usr/sbin/backup binary in OpenAFS conflicts with a binary of the same name in Coda. Before RPM Fusion renames the binary (eg. backup.afs), do any other distros have existing conventions for

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Converted OpenAFS documentation to PDF for easy reference

2011-06-23 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:26:24 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: chas did: https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2011-June/036262.html also, while i tinkering with this i went ahead and generated a new version of the Admin Reference (perhaps the most useful and up to

Re: [OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

2011-06-08 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
i spent a little time this week trying to get the conversions to 'look good' using the latest git doc xml sources. the pdf's are there for comparison so if you see something odd you can check to see if it is a conversion artifact. someone other than me should examine these things closely to

Re: [OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

2011-06-02 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:21:40 -0500 David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: The .epub looks great on my Nook, iPad, and iPhone. Thanks. That's way useful. i had a little time this morning so i tried calibre instead of mobipocket reader to do the epub conversion. i also started with the git

Re: [OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

2011-06-02 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:51:48 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Starting with the HTML docs is probably not a great idea, since those are always generated from other stuff. The approach of using Docbook tools to generate ePub is probably best for the manuals. For the man pages, I

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: modload failing, Sol10 SPARC, 1.4.14

2011-06-01 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:34 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: Also, Jeff, if you want a quick workaround, you can change -O to -O2 or just leave out the -O option. I think changing the value of KERN_OPTMZ in src/cf/osconf.m4 should be enough... the studio compilers, if i

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: modload failing, Sol10 SPARC, 1.4.14

2011-06-01 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:25:00 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011 18:44:24 -0400 Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: or, for now, just replace that with memset(dirHeader-hashTable, 0, NHASHENT*(unsigned short)); and move along? Yeah but, I'd

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: modload failing, Sol10 SPARC, 1.4.14

2011-06-01 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:50:58 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 07:32:32 -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: the studio compilers, if i recall correctly, prefer -xO2. -O2 just gets passed to the linker (or something like

Re: [OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

2011-06-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 87oc2hmo4d@windlord.stanford.edu,Russ Allbery writes: I'm not sure about the most recent, but older Kindles absolutely will not handle ePub. Also, if the goal is to get it into the Amazon store, I'm pretty sure it's going to have to be in MOBI format. they saw they dont. but...

Re: [OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

2011-06-01 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
me think that there is a reserved character in the index references/links (like # perhaps) In message 4de6c351.8020...@qualcomm.com,Patty O'Reilly writes: Nice! Works great. On 6/1/11 3:12 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: In message87oc2hmo4d@windlord.stanford.edu,Russ Allbery writes

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.0pre5 (or pre4) and Unknown symbol

2011-05-06 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 06 May 2011 17:18:40 +0200 (CEST) Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: As we have infinband stuff here, we have some ofed related rpms installed. One of these installed an exportfs.ko into /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.pdc1/updates/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko which was effectively

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-05 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message b6016d7f-75e7-4660-8190-016d9a9b2...@inf.ed.ac.uk,Simon Wilkinson writes: On 5 Dec 2010, at 02:55, Derrick Brashear sha...@dementia.org wrote: We tell you that you can, and how, to disable this Perhaps we should ship with it disabled by default? probably. especially since this

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-05 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 20101205153716.d3fc0661.adea...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason writes: On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:05:20 -0500 Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: Perhaps we should ship with it disabled by default? probably. especially since this is one of those lesser known

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-04 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message 20101203155612.e7a694f5.adea...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason writes: On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:00:37 -0500 chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:53:08 -0600 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: Why lose the logs? It's already annoying

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-04 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message aanlktikdcjrjoufppasnubb_+2tlos2z_27afec9k...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick Brashear writes: you can, of course, bos getlog a syslog file. for that matter, if you strip the niceties that you cant getlog my syslog when it is on another machine. bos getlog prepends, you can bos getlog an

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:33:07 -0500 Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com writes: My one concern to switching to something like syslog by default is that bos getlog will

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:22:11 -0500 Michael Meffie mmef...@sinenomine.net wrote: The key point is that currently some sites may be relying on weekly restarts and the current rename from FileLog to FileLog.old to avoid filling a disk partition. I think a more sensible approach in long term, for

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-03 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:53:08 -0600 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: Why lose the logs? It's already annoying enough when I get told a vos release failed and there's no record of the vos output. That's going to make my life difficult when someone can't remember when or what they

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-02 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:50:36 -0500 Michael Meffie mmef...@sinenomine.net wrote: I propose in some future release of openafs this behavior be deprecated and, by default, the server would simply append to the already existing log file on startup. Also, each server would handle the HUP signal to

Re: [OpenAFS] /usr/afsws convention

2010-11-09 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message aanlktim1bhyr=jkj-fahsckrovqoqvc=_v7a+0ynb...@mail.gmail.com,Ken Dreyer writes: I'm looking at tidying and standardizing my $PATH across systems, and I had a question about the /usr/afsws path. Is the /usr/afsws convention considered deprecated? i would guess that it is but we still

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Latest docs on building the OpenAFS source code

2010-10-02 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message aanlktikjjj16ckewiu9nyvygozvzzhqdoujtuxsnk...@mail.gmail.com,Derrick Brashear writes: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Phillip Moore yeah. thing is, by and large most people don't need that either which is why it still works that way. we've been improving. i suspect openafs should be

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-30 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:01:49 +0200 Lars Schimmer l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote: Just want to ask - XFS repair or XFS check. Last time I tried it on linux I got a out of memory error (with 24GB memory available). AFAIK it does need a really large memory to check big partitions with lots of

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-30 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:19:51 +0200 Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: Hi Jeff, On Sep 29, 2010, at 22:18 , Jeffrey Altman wrote: RAID is not a replacement for ZFS. ZRAID-3 protects against single bit disk corruption errors that RAID cannot. Only ZFS stores a checksum of

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