[OpenAFS-devel] Starting fs without salvaging...

[D. Hageman]

Nathan,

The network setup you describe sounds very impressive.  The most
interesting part of it was that you are utilizing a full kerberos 5 setup.
This is something that we are very interested in doing.  The general
timeline that we would like is to first implement krb5 for all the systems
and then attempt to transition OpenAFS into the grand scheme of things.

One of the items that concerns me is user management.  With such a large
system that you have, I am wondering how easy user management is?  We have
been toying around with the idea of making a SQL backend (most likely we
will use PostgreSQL) to the MIT Kerberos package.  A couple of other
reasons why we are wanting something like a generic way to store user
account management is because of the web systems and a potential wireless
lan setup for the engineering buildings.  We figure that we will have
better luck with a SQL backend then berkley dbs.

At any rate, those are kinda my thoughts on the matter.  I apreciate any
feedback or recommondations that you might have to offer on the subject
matter.

> Yes, for 1000+ NT stations, and 200-300 unix stations (mix of hp, solaris,
> linux, with a couple sgis thrown in, although we are trying to get out of
> them as there are only 3 of them.) We have 9 afs servers at the moment, 3
> are DB-only on suns, and the rest are a mix of suns and linux, for about 1.4
> Tb, of which most is wasted space due to administrative decisions on how to
> handle quotas.
>
> We're also fully krb5, no kaservers. (Moving to ADS gradually as well...
> have yet to see how that will work out in the end.)

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