Re: [OpenAFS] Question for admins regarding pts membership output

2022-07-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 1:49 PM Jeffrey E Altman wrote: > The question for cell admins is whether anyone is aware of any internal > scripts which process the output of "pts membership" which will break as > a result of the inclusion of the implicit groups "system:anyuser" and > "system:authuser"

Re: [OpenAFS] What you need to know about Windows 10

2015-07-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Tomorrow(*) Thanks for the update/reminder. And thanks for your willingness to build "one last time" for Windows 10. It really is "above and beyond" what anyone has any right to expect. Personally, I have no idea if Windows 10 will be e

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

2014-10-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: > For all of these situations where the Foundation would provide the > ability to sign binaries, there are those legal considerations, then, > but also other things. The Foundation needs to have a point of contact > for any of these, and n

Re: [OpenAFS] any experiences with OpenAFS client on the upcoming MacOS 10.10 (yosemite) release?

2014-10-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Stephen Joyce wrote: > Jeffrey, > > I'd like to learn more about this. However since you sell a proprietary fork > of OpenAFS, it's difficult to discount your possible incentive to spread FUD > regarding OpenAFS. > > Therefore can you provide URIs with specific inf

Re: [OpenAFS] Recent Fedora kmod issues

2014-05-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Jon Stanley wrote: > Thinking about it though, since RPM goes off of what's in the RPM > database and not what's on the filesystem, I wouldn't think that this > would be working for *any* Fedora 17+ system, regardless of how it's > installed - there's nothing i

Re: [OpenAFS] Just curious, anyone know what this AFS might be?

2013-12-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: ... > Its an accounting system. You mean OpenAFS is not being rewritten in Cobol in honor of Admiral Hopper :-) ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailm

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: How to remove a bogus (127.0.1.1) server entry for readonly?

2013-12-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Coy Hile wrote: > Somewhat off-topic, but am I the only one who thinks that > Linux distributions doing this is utterly brain-dead? I suppose the only good news is that in IPv6 only ::1/128 is loopback. So such "interesting" choices will hopefully not be pr

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Fstab options for AFS on SSDs

2013-08-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: > 'discard' I've heard may help or hurt performance depending on usage And on the particular SSD vendor (really the firmware), when it receives the (SATA) TRIM, or the (SAS) UNMAP command. Some of the firmware implementations can actually

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Steve Simmons wrote: > Without meaning to insult the average system administrator Well, since all system administrators are above average, you can not have insulted anyone (yet) :-). I agree with both what you and Russ are saying. It all depends on your orga

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: ... > We have AFS clients on all of our servers, including the AFS servers, and > avoid unintentional dependencies on AFS (for all services) by just being > careful. While I trust you to be careful (and I would trust myself to be careful :-), I

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu problem

2013-02-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > Subset of, yes. All? So many sites on the Internet can't be accessed > reliably from the many OSes that do PMTUD? Somehow, I doubt. If you want to be sure, use the RFC mandated minimum MTU of 576 for IPv4 (1280 for IPv6). You want lar

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.7.18 released for Microsoft Windows - Win 8 and Server 2012

2012-11-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > OpenAFS 1.7.18 is the next a series of OpenAFS clients for the Microsoft > Windows platform that is implemented as a native file system. I am not asking for it, just curious if OpenAFS will (eventually) make it to the Windows App Store(*), j

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] rxgk development has been funded

2012-10-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > What are the missing pieces needed to deploy RxK5? > I am going to start with the assumption that it will not > pass the standards process until after there are several > people running it in production. Please read https://www.ietf.

Re: [OpenAFS] is YFS a "derived work"?

2012-10-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Ted Creedon wrote: > The IP (intellectual property) in YFS seems to be derived from AFS's IP. > > If that case can be made, IBM or any other entity could force YFS back into > the open source domain. I am confident that YFSi would have dotted and crossed the appro

Re: [OpenAFS] the future

2012-10-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: > we are running lustre alongside afs right now. lustre is generally > much much faster than afs. the downside is that the security model > is essentially nfsv3. anyone with root on a lustre client is essentially > any other

Re: [OpenAFS] Distro vs. @sys. Round 1: FIGHT!

2012-08-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: > Due to drastic differences in OS libraries present, those (like us), > who use @sys in PATH, get bitten. That is, our build of AppX for > 'amd64_linux26' that was built on RHEL 5 will not work on RHEL 6, > and we need to support both. In

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on OS X 10.8

2012-02-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:43, Ken Dreyer wrote: > I was curious if anyone's tried OpenAFS on Apple's 10.8 developer > preview yet? How did it go? If they told you, they would have to kill you :-) More seriously, Apple is very protective of their assets, (and some might call it secretive to the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: problem installing kmod-openafs from yum repo

2012-02-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:45, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > Apparently no i386 more in rhel6 and clones. Somewhere along the line Fedora (and now RHEL) dropped i386. You have to target i686. Gary ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org ht

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

2011-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 02:58, Harald Barth wrote: ... > IMHO it should be disabled completely if there are no RFC1918 > interfaces on the client and enabled if there are such interfaces. > A command line flag to override in either direction would help > as well (for debugging, testing and strange

Re: [OpenAFS] CentOS 6.0 and installing kmod-openafs-1.6.0

2011-11-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 06:58, Coy Hile wrote: ... > Does RHEL 6 have the same key too new issue as well? Yes. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client network behaviour

2011-09-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 14:42, Anders Magnusson wrote: ... > No, state-of-the-art HP workstation.  Note that this is more-or-less the > behaviour > of all our Win7 machines with the IFS client, all of them are really new > hardware. This is a WAG, but high end workstations sometimes have network

Re: [OpenAFS] When to publish security advisories?

2011-04-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
> My proposal, going forwards, is to not produce security advisories or > releases for these local denial of service attacks. Local issues that can > result in privilege escalation, or denial of service attacks that can be > performed by those outside a sites infrastructure would still result in

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Backups]

2011-03-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
> Not sure why anyone would want to use anything other than Teradactyl. As with all else, it depends on your requirements. Teradactyl is clearly a solution targeting the enterprise space with enterprise capability, support, overheads, and pricing. TSM and NetBackup target the same space (althoug

Re: [OpenAFS] calculating memory

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 15:24, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2011, at 20:24, Gary Gatling wrote: > >> I am in charge of several afs servers in our college. Right now there are >> 5 afs servers running on 5 SPARC based servers. We are ditching Solaris >> since it sucks so bad and are going t

Re: [OpenAFS] GiveUpAllCallBacks callers

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:47, Derrick Brashear wrote: >> c) Just state that 1.4.5 is "too old" to bother > > possibly that being today. While I tend to be of the opinion that at some point you just have to throw away the bath water (regardless of the baby squid that has been living in it for a

Re: [OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 22:52, Christopher D. Clausen wrote: > Are we attempting to solve a problem that no one actually has? I am sure someone has encountered it. Someone has encountered every problem. Whether someone reports it is another issue. I am a proponent of delivering solutions which

Re: [OpenAFS] End of life for Windows 2000?

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
> XP does have the same problem that 2000 does in that it is no longer > supported by Microsoft without an extremely expensive support contract. > Given the fact that so many sites still have XP and Server 2003 systems > in production, I can't imagine deprecating support for XP for at least > anoth

Re: [OpenAFS] End of life for Windows 2000?

2010-11-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
> Windows 2000 is now more than ten years old.  If your organization would be > significantly impacted by removing support for Windows 2000, please let us > know.  My personal opinion is that it is time to declare Windows 2000 > unsupported. I would have to look at the official dates, but my recol

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 22:56, Robert Milkowski wrote: > On 30/09/2010 22:42, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 20:09, Robert Milkowski  wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> >>> btw: according to the leaked memo Oracle will provide source

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 20:09, Robert Milkowski wrote: ... > btw: according to the leaked memo Oracle will provide source code for > Solaris, including ZFS, everytime they produce a new Solaris release. This > would mean that it will still be open source, but development wouldn't > happen in open

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 20:51, Booker Bense wrote: > [1]- "But I can get a 2 TB disk at fry's for $150..." Then one overpaid. The current Fry's flyer shows 2TB for $99 :-) ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openaf

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 05:19, Stephan Wiesand wrote: ... > Anyway, the next best option if ZFS is not available is to run parity checks > on all your arrays regularly. Perhaps it is the best one can do, but be aware that a (rare, but real) failure mode of disks is that they return the contents

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 00:04, Vincent Fox wrote: >  On 09/28/2010 04:13 PM, Rich Sudlow wrote: >> >>  that being said we're also looking for fileserver >> alternatives due to Oracle takeover. > > What's your reasoning here? > > If anything I'd expect them to put effort into optimizing it > which

Re: [OpenAFS] govenen laptop encryption requiements

2007-02-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
ted creedon wrote: Have openafs users been affected by http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2006/m06-16.pdf ? Anyone who is a "Fed" (or a Fed contractor) has had to deal with that memo, and address the issues (quite some time ago, actually). Primarily, the point is to insure there is not