[OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

[Brandon Allbery]

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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> > I just sent off a (believed to be final) patch to get 1.6.1 in the
> freebsd
> > ports collection this morning; it should hit the ports tree within a day
> or
> > two.
>
> Thanks!  This has hit the ports treen and I got quite a bit further.
> OpenAFS is running, but now when I go to create a file system, I get:
>
> root@server: vos create server /vicepa root.afs -localauth
> vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on the server
>
> The folder /vicepa does indeed exist, and is empty:
>

But is it a partition (that is, a local mountpoint)?  You may need to
'touch /vicepa/AlwaysAttach' to force it to use arbitrary directories; this
is a bad idea in general.

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com
wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Tim Gustafson <span dir=
=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:tjg@soe.ucsc.edu" target=3D"_blank">tjg@soe.=
ucsc.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;p=
adding-left:1ex">
<div class=3D"im">&gt; I just sent off a (believed to be final) patch to ge=
t 1.6.1 in the freebsd<br>
&gt; ports collection this morning; it should hit the ports tree within a d=
ay or<br>
&gt; two.<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks! =C2=A0This has hit the ports treen and I got quite a bit furt=
her.<br>
OpenAFS is running, but now when I go to create a file system, I get:<br>
<br>
root@server: vos create server /vicepa root.afs -localauth<br>
vos : partition /vicepa does not exist on the server<br>
<br>
The folder /vicepa does indeed exist, and is empty:<br></blockquote><div><b=
r></div><div>But is it a partition (that is, a local mountpoint)? =C2=A0You=
 may need to &#39;touch /vicepa/AlwaysAttach&#39; to force it to use arbitr=
ary directories; this is a bad idea in general.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0<a href=3D"mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" targe=
t=3D"_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>wandering unix systems administrato=
r (available) =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (412) 475-9364 vm/sms<br>
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