[OpenAFS] Dear Transarc, I Quit! Love, Moose

[John Hascall]

Esther Filderman <ecf@psc.edu> writes:
> For those of you who have laughed at me because my servers were not
> running OpenAFS.
> 
> the short story, because I tend to babble: 
> By the time IBM acknowledged the 2^30 problem, the PSC's AFS servers
> were running OpenAFS 1.2.11, "upgraded" from Transarc 3.5.

I too would like to express my thanks to IBM/Transarc/name-of-the-week
for sticking a big fat knife in my workplace politics.  As far as I know
they *still* haven't produced a patched version for Digital/Compaq/HP/whatever
Unix which we still have on some of our servers (including our AFS DBs).

Seriously, my real thanks go to the OpenAFS developers and community
for giving me a way to put our cell back together on a critical
weekend without any eye-bleeding.

John

> 
> 
> 
> the longer story:
> 
> Until today, the AFS servers at the PSC ran Transarc 3.5, patch
> {mumble}.  I never put 3.6 on them, for some bizarre reason I can't
> recall anymore.  For months, I've wanted to install OpenAFS on them,
> but due to politics, couldn't do so without bringing up a "test cell"
> to prove that it would all work easily.  I was supposed to get that
> cell running over break, but got sick instead.
> 
> Being part of CMU, I get to talk online with folks at CMU and MIT
> using zephyr, MIT's magical communication toy.  When I left the house
> at 8:30am, some MIT folk were crowing about "Happy New Bit Day" and
> the whole 2^30 thing.
> 
> When I got back to the house at 11 am, Jeff Hutzleman says:
>      Hey, moose.. You want to upgrade your dbservers soon.
>      I suggest a couple of hours ago.
> 
> First I tried patching and recompiling the Transarc 3.5 source.
> Everyone who's ever done this, who is NOT an ex-ITC or -Transarc
> employee, and has not bled from both eyes, please raise your hand.
> 
> By 2:30pm my servers were happily running OpenAFS 1.2.11.
> 
> We're still running a few IBM-AFS clients here and there, but now
> we're almost completely an OpenAFS shop.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>      ecf@psc.edu     Esther Filderman    moose+@cmu.edu 
>             Senior System Mangler & AFS Dominatrix  
>                Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
> 
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