[OpenAFS-devel] Solaris 10 local zone support?

[Robert Banz]

Coy Hile wrote:
> Is anybody working on the ability to have an OpenAFS client running inside
> a non-global zone in Solaris 10 (or later)?  I'm ending up wtih syscalls
> failing.  See output from afsd -verbose (with a handfull of other options
> also so that it doesn't try to write to a LOFS-mounted directory) below:
> 
> |afsd: Forking AFSDB lookup handler.
> |SScall(65, 28, 36)=-1 afsd: Error -1 in basic initialization.
> |afsd: Calling AFSOP_CACHEINIT: 2000 stat cache entries, 5000 optimum cache
> |files, 50000 blocks in the cache, flags = 0x0, dcache entries 800
> |SScall(65, 28, 6)=-1 afsd: Sweeping workstation's AFS cache directory.
> |afsd: 5000 out of 5000 data cache files found in sweep 1.
> |SScall(65, 28, 7)=-1 SScall(65, 28, 34)=-1 SScall(65, 28, 29)=-1
> |Adding cell 'coyhile.ca': error -1
> |SScall(65, 28, 35)=-1 afsd: Forking AFS daemon.
> |afsd: Forking Check Server Daemon.
> |afsd: Forking 3 background daemons.
> 
> 

The only way I could get it to work was to run AFS in the global zone 
and mount it via a loopback in the client zones.  It works ok for 
general file access, however, since the loopback-mounted AFS doesn't 
look like "real" to the AFS tools such as 'fs', they don't work :(

-rob