Re: [OpenAFS] Deleted db servers still being queried

2011-08-22 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
I believe you will need to restart all your client machines. Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, My AFS network used to have six hosts: thee db servers and three fs servers. Thinking that I might be able to end some unexplained behavior, I decided to consolidate them and have three hosts. I did

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris 10 deadlock issue

2011-06-14 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
Is this an x86 Solaris 10 box running on Nehalem? Aaron Knister wrote: Good afternoon! I'm writing to report a deadlock issue I'm seeing on Solaris 10. What I've observed is that when a file larger than the configured size of the cache is copied out of AFS the cache manager deadlocks and

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris 10 deadlock issue

2011-06-14 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
: The box in question is an x86 VM running in VMware ESXi on a host with dual Opteron CPUs. I have also reproduced it on a pre-nehalem and a nehalem Intel system. All are running the latest patches to Solaris 10 u8. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Patricia O'Reilly orei...@qualcomm.com

[OpenAFS] remove a retired fileserver

2011-06-09 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
Hi folks, I have several old retired fileservers (systems are not online) that still show up in clients server preferences, sometimes as a different machine name if the old IP address was recycled. I've used bos removehost for db servers but what is the command to remove fileservers from the

Re: [OpenAFS] remove a retired fileserver

2011-06-09 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
awesome. thanks! Derrick Brashear wrote: vos changeaddr -remove Derrick On Jun 9, 2011, at 15:22, Patricia O'Reilly orei...@qualcomm.com wrote: Hi folks, I have several old retired fileservers (systems are not online) that still show up in clients server preferences, sometimes

Re: [OpenAFS] When to publish security advisories?

2011-04-15 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
Is there any problem connecting 1.6 clients with 1.4.14 servers? Russ Allbery wrote: Simon Wilkinson s...@inf.ed.ac.uk writes: We need to be careful that we don't burn out the volunteers who provide this service by creating releases too frequently. This is going to be especially important

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris 10 SPARC hang on shutdown

2011-02-28 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
Yes, please complain to Oracle about this. We have the same problem with Sol 10 Update 9 here and Oracle has not been very responsive. Umounting with the patch in the run level script or using SMF didn't solve the problem. --patty Jeff Blaine wrote: Sorry: Both are AFS clients and not AFS

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Solaris 10 SPARC hang on shutdown

2011-02-28 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
you know if they have an update. Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:41:26 -0800 Patricia O'Reilly orei...@qualcomm.com wrote: Yes, please complain to Oracle about this. We have the same problem with Sol 10 Update 9 here and Oracle has not been very responsive. Umounting

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Solaris 10 SPARC hang on shutdown

2011-02-28 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
I may butcher this a bit as I am not a kernel person. Reboot on Solaris will not work, period -- with or without the patch. This is not good for our environment as customers expect reboot to work the way it always has. You can use the init scripts and all will be well unless you have an

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Solaris 10 SPARC hang on shutdown

2011-02-28 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
28, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Patricia O'Reilly orei...@qualcomm.com wrote: I may butcher this a bit as I am not a kernel person. Reboot on Solaris will not work, period -- with or without the patch. This is not good for our environment as customers expect reboot to work the way it always has

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Need volume state / fileserver / salvage knowledge

2011-02-01 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
From what you have described it sounds to me like you need the patch that Andrew referenced earlier that allows you to configure an -offline-timeout and -offline-shutdown-timeout option on your fileservers. We have has similar problems at our site and will be releasing that patch into

Re: [OpenAFS] Need volume state / fileserver / salvage knowledge

2011-01-28 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
Was there any type of maintenance being done on the system? ZFS takes a snapshot of the filesystem prior to maintenance, then reverts back to that snapshot after the maintenance is complete. That means if your server was running when the initial snapshot was taken, the SALVAGE.fs file was in

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
We manage 18,000 Unix/Linux machines via configuration files and packages stored in AFS. So far nothing else comes close to scaling as well as AFS. The configuration management system was developed in house. We edit in one place and the information is pulled (from AFS) by the client based on

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Fair bandwidth distribution, performance of OpenAFS on win32

2010-11-11 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
When it comes to compiling on an afs filesystems, there isn't always an alternative as the binaries for large packages often times contain paths pointing to where they were built. One could try to get around this with the magic of symlinks during the build process but is often complicated with