[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS (Linux)

[brettholcomb@charter.net]

Thank you very much.  I've just started looking at OpenAFS as a possible solution.  I'll ajk jeeves for the man on losetup.

> 
> From: Joshua Johnson <joshua.johnson@ftlsys.com>
> Date: 2004/01/02 Fri PM 01:33:27 EST
> To: brettholcomb@charter.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS (Linux)
> 
> man losetup(8)
>  Will tell you how to create the loopback partition (on Linux).
> ** NO encryption, NO password
>  My partition is called "/var/cache/openafs.file"
> 
> My /etc/fstab has a new entry for the cache partition:
> 
> -- /dev/hda2  / xfs        defaults              1 1
> >> /var/cache/openafs.file /var/cache/openafs ext2 defaults,loop   0 0
> -- ...
> 
> This is SuSE 8.2 Intel, SuSE Openafs 1.2.8 (dist rpm's)
> Cachesize  is ~ 256MB
> I found chunksize=18 (2^18 or 256KB) to be about right
> 	(Thats for my situation, you should learn what is right for you, see the 
> docs & wiki & archives)
> 
> Works fine. Everyday use for >4 months, homedir(2.5GB) & apps (Mozilla, 
> JAVA, OpenOffice, etc. etc.) on AFS.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> Joshua Johnson
> 
> --On Friday, January 02, 2004 12:59:15 PM -0500 brettholcomb@charter.net 
> wrote:
> 
> > Which manual?  I'm wading through the admin guide for AFS right now after
> > looking at the FAQs and other docs and so far haven't seen this
> > addressed.  Someone has  suggested a loop mount point of a file system
> > that is ext2/3 so I may try that.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> > At this time I don't have any partitions available and don't want to
> >> > have to create them.
> >>
> >> RTFM.
> >>
> >
> >
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