[OpenAFS-devel] Attempting to build a test environment. Help needed

Doug Hirsch dhirsch@pobox.com
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:26:39 -0400


Derrick, Marcus,

Do you have a favorite public cheat sheet for setting up a test cell?

Doug

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> wrote:
>> I imagine anybody serious about afs development has a canned process
>> for making a test cell, but I notice nobody posted theirs.
>
> I do it by hand every time.
>
> Your imagination is very vivid.
>
>> Bringing up a test cell is easy. =A0Do not let anybody tell you it's har=
d
>> or not worth doing. =A0You will learn so much more doing it that you can=
not
>> afford to miss the opportunity. =A0This is the difference between being
>> a half-assed developer, and a kick-ass developer.
>>
>> You need 2 machines:
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0machine A
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0db server, fs server
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0machine B
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0test client
>
> You can do it with one if you're adventurous, crazy, or poor.
>
> If you do, make sure you configure the fileserver to start before you
> configure the client to start.