[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.8.8 beta 1 available

On 14/06/2021 13:53, Stephan Wiesand wrote: The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the prerelease 1.8.8pre1 is now available. Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at: http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.8pre1/ Just to report that this builds OK

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS stopped working - me too

On 14/01/2021 14:12, Heinz-Ado Arnolds wrote: Dear colleagues, thanks for your notes! We have the same problem with 1.8.6 clients since this morning and are working hard to find the problem. Our complete cell is not able to work any more. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Another "me

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new 1.8.2 cell: possible protection server issues

(top of my head): * AFS clients and servers (even on the same machine) use different locations for CellServDB. It looks like the client file has all 3 hosts (which would explain the intermittent results), but the servers might not know about each other, which would mean elections don't work.

Re: [OpenAFS] Trouble deleting server (vos changeaddr -remove)

Suggest to try "vldb_check" (on a copy of the vldb.DB0 file) or https://github.com/openafs-contrib/afs-tools/blob/master/admin/afs-vol-check to figure out what is wrong. Cheers jan ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS release 1.6.21 available

On 11/08/17 20:41, Garance A Drosehn wrote: On 6 Jul 2017, at 10:05, Stephan Wiesand wrote: The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS version 1.6.21 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the web at: http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.21/ I

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem deleting volumes

On 07/24/2017 05:22 PM, Susan Litzinger wrote: I have a number of temp volumes that I'm trying to delete but having problems within our AFS filesystem. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to diagnose the 'Possible communication failure' error? I'm not finding anything on google. Here is

Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only volume issues

On 06/20/2016 11:09 PM, Garrison, Christine wrote: > [..] Though, I am open to ideas. It seems awful to ask about how to retire an OpenAFS system on this list, however. (I guess that many of us are at least considering this. This list could be a nice place to share strategies and gotchas..

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in the age of the wild west internet

On 03/04/2016 04:04 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: While I really like the concept of AFS as a world-wide filesystem, I'm starting to wonder if it's a good idea in the modern age of cyberattacks. How safe is it to leave AFS open to the world? Some of the data we store in AFS does not need to be

Re: [OpenAFS] Repeated lost contact with servers - only at one location

On 12/15/2015 11:53 AM, Orel Gueta wrote: Hi Ben, Thanks for the tip, however if I do "fs checkservers -cell cern.ch ", I get the same result. Perhaps because /etc/openafs/ThisCell is set to CERN.CH ? yes. Either way, regardless if I specify the cell or not,

Re: [OpenAFS] How to modify AFS uid after user has been created

On 05/21/2015 05:37 PM, Susan Litzinger wrote: We have a situation where we need to change the AFS uids for a handful of long-time users who have uids that are 1000. I can't seem to find any way to change the AFS uid for anyone after they have been created. Has anyone else run into this

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.5 on OSX

On 04/27/2015 01:13 PM, Jack Hill wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Jeffrey Altman wrote: 1. OpenAFS has an obligation to provide backward compatibility with IBM AFS 3.6 rxkad as long as it wishes to use the name. According to my reading of the AFS trademark agreement posted on the OpenAFS

[OpenAFS] IBM/OpenAFS trademark agreement - available anywhere?

Dear all, I've recently come across https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2014-September/020004.html : [..] Unfortunately, the no-more-des.html announcement was before the issues with IBM and the use of the Trademark were encountered. My understanding is that the agreement

[OpenAFS] (minor) VLDB corruption - how to clean up/repair?

While trying to clean up leftover server IPs, I've come across a corrupted entry in our VLDB. We've apparently had this for at least several months (potentially much longer), seems to not really affect running (and happily got sync'ed over to new servers etc recently). $ vos changeaddr

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: (minor) VLDB corruption - how to clean up/repair?

On 11/07/2014 05:13 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:40:51 +0100 Jan Iven jan.i...@cern.ch wrote: Are there any other just do it-level commands or flags that might allow me to get unstuck via command line tools, or is this potentially hexedit time (in which case I might

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Minor question on moving AFS db servers

On 10/30/2014 10:13 AM, Harald Barth wrote: I just mention this because I don't think there's any way to avoid this one. Other userspace clients will not notice because they are short-lived processes, but anything that's long running, we don't have a way to notify of CellServDB changes. The

Re: [OpenAFS] Minor question on moving AFS db servers

On 10/29/2014 06:47 PM, Garance A Drosehn wrote: Hi. We have AFS db servers on some ancient hardware, and decided to move them to be virtual machines on much newer hardware. I've moved one of them already, and the final result seems to be fine. There was one minor oddity during the

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

On 10/08/2014 03:41 PM, Jan Iven wrote: Our Mac support was wondering whether MacOS 10.10 will run OpenAFS. Perhaps somebody has some experiences to share (apparently 10.9 needed a new openafs-1.6.6 release before becoming installable)? Of course, in the end we will need to do our own tests

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

Our Mac support was wondering whether MacOS 10.10 will run OpenAFS. Perhaps somebody has some experiences to share (apparently 10.9 needed a new openafs-1.6.6 release before becoming installable)? Of course, in the end we will need to do our own tests, but if the answer is don't bother, needs a

Re: [OpenAFS] Authentication without aklog

On 08/01/2014 01:02 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: 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

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and windows/unix versioning

On 05/07/2014 10:20 AM, Harald Barth wrote: In sync would have been nice, but as in sync has been problematic in the past and I don't expect that to change, I suggest to go with the last suggestion. I would call it marketing numbers and these should have another range so that they have clearly