RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
- > From: Moritz Bunse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:09 AM > To: Lundgren, Andrew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; openafs-info@openafs.org > Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready? > > > Hi > > I'm using CentOS 5, a RHEL 5 rebuild. I

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Derrick Brashear
On 7/17/07, Harald Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer builds are > not present. (RH5 is out was well as newer RH4, the current kernel is > several version newer than what has packages available.) Yes. It takes a serious amount of man

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Simmons wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: > >> I looking for a production ready distributed file system. >> . . . >> I have been looking for a good printed book to read though to learn >> more, but really can't fin

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Harald Barth
> Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer builds are > not present. (RH5 is out was well as newer RH4, the current kernel is > several version newer than what has packages available.) Yes. It takes a serious amount of manpower to keep up with the zillions of Linux versions i

RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-17 Thread Moritz Bunse
Hi I'm using CentOS 5, a RHEL 5 rebuild. I just dowdnloaded the source rpm and did # rpmbuild --rebuild openafs-1.4.4-rhel4.2.src.rpm --define 'osvers rhel5' Then the rpms can be found in e.g. /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/. Works fine for me. There are also prebuild rpms available in the inte

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-16 Thread Derrick Brashear
On 7/16/07, Lundgren, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suggest using a version of Linux that has pre-built > binaries available for it unless you have some special requirements. > Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer builds are not present. (RH5 is out was well as

RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-16 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
I ordered the new book today. Thank you. From: Steve Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:39 PM To: Lundgren, Andrew; OpenAFS-Info AFS Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready

RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-16 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
> > I suggest using a version of Linux that has pre-built > binaries available for it unless you have some special requirements. > Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer builds are not present. (RH5 is out was well as newer RH4, the current kernel is several version newer

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Simmons
On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Steve Simmons wrote: On Jul 13, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: I looking for a production ready distributed file system. . . . I have been looking for a good printed book to read though to learn more, but really can't find much. Is there a good refe

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Simmons
On Jul 13, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: I looking for a production ready distributed file system. . . . I have been looking for a good printed book to read though to learn more, but really can't find much. Is there a good reference/intro book out there? You can still find co

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: Which version should I consider using, the latest version that the download link leads (1.4.x) to or the version that the windows download leads to (1.5.x)? I'd suggest using the version the windows download link leads to on windows, and the latest

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
"Lundgren, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lost that information in a cut and paste. Opps. I was able to get the > code to compile on suse by removing some extra ifdefs from the lines 115 > and 460 in the file: > openafs-1.5.21/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.16.27-0.9-default-SP/osi_vfsops.c > I

RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
> > Now for the fun questions. Is the windows client suitable for a > > production environment? > > Yes, absolutely. The Windows client is, in fact, arguably > the best of all of the clients at the moment in terms of > stability, although it has some oddities of implementation > that we ho

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Lundgren, Andrew wrote: > Now for the fun questions. Is the windows client suitable for a > production environment? yes > The windows machines will in turn be serving > data to multiple clients. (A proprietary data server that only runs on > windows will be feeding the data off box, but the da

Re: [OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
"Lundgren, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now for the fun questions. Is the windows client suitable for a > production environment? Yes, absolutely. The Windows client is, in fact, arguably the best of all of the clients at the moment in terms of stability, although it has some oddities

[OpenAFS] Production ready?

2007-07-13 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
I looking for a production ready distributed file system. I learned about AFS about 10 years ago in college, but this is the first time I have been able to try and use it. I need to set up several linux servers that will provide data to both linux and windows 2003 client platforms. I have read