[OpenAFS] A few questions now

Ryan Underwood nemesis-lists@icequake.net
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:08:49 +0000


Ok, now that I fired off the other part of my diatribe, I have a few questions
about stuff that I run into in my own AFS usage.

1) Occasionally, clients will get kernel messages from the openafs client
about "Waiting on busy volume blahblahbla".  What are these all about?  I
know that the volume can't be busy, because nobody else is using the machine
at the time. ;)  Something to be concerned about, or ignored?

2) Is there a way to make permissions "stick" in AFS like the unix
setuid/sgid bits when applied to directories?  For instance, if I am kinit'd
as an administrator, and I go to someone's home directory and make a directory,
I would prefer if that new directory by default would retain the ACL
of the directory above it, instead of being set to system:administrators
only.   I have some problems with permissions seemingly "roaming" around at
times, and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm making directories without taking
note of what user I'm kinit'd as; so I find directories that I unexpectedly
am unable to access as a regular user, etc.

Thanks!

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253