[OpenAFS] achieving "balance"?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:34:37 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Stephen Joyce wrote:

> (is it schizophrenic to reply to one's own post?)
>
> ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/AFS-Tools/balance-1.2-beta.tar.gz will
> compile, with warnings, on linux after adjusting library locations. However
> while it's stable on solaris, it segfaults fairly often on linux.

backtrace?

> Is there a newer version that 1.2-beta (10/26/2003)? Or is anyone using
> this reliably on linux and willing to share their changes? OR, as I asked
> originally, if balance is no longer the best program to use for balancing
> volumes across partitions, what is?

The tool that Russ Allbery distributes is almost certainly more actively 
maintained.

>> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/afs-balance. Are there others?