[OpenAFS] Directory layout for new cells
Derek Atkins
warlord@MIT.EDU
15 Nov 2000 17:17:13 -0500
When you install your server package, how does it know whether it's
installing a database server or fileserver? And how does it know
whether it needs to generate a new cell? This seems like somewhere
that might be very challenging to do in a general way.
I can certainly see creating a bunch of scripts that:
1) configure a new new on this new primary db/fileserver
2) configure a new db server and add it to the cell
3) configure a new fileserver and add it to the cell
FTR, I don't do any of this in my RedHat scripts; I let the user setup
servers and cells on their own. However, having such scripts would be
nice, and I would certainly include them in my packages.
-derek
Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
> So, I'm working on Debian packages for Openafs. Partially because of
> Debian policy and partially because it is useful to the user community
> , I'm trying to make it easy to set up AFS cells.
>
> As such, I'm working on a script to create and populate root.afs,
> root.cell and the top volumes in the cell.
>
> I'm interested in whether anyone else is doing something similar for
> other operating systems/environments. If so, we should work together.
>
> I'm also interested in established practice for what belongs in an
> initial cell. I'm mostly ignoring the Transarc documentation because
> I believe it is a bit dated and seems to focus more on how your
> clients find their AFS binaries than on how to set up a cell to get
> useful work done. If the point of a cell organization is only to make
> the lives of the AFS administrators (as apposed to the users) easier,
> then perhaps that cell is not yet a critical part of the community it
> serves.
>
> I tend to be a bit MIT-centric in my cell organization; I think
> cell/system/@sys is cleaner than cell/@sys, etc. However, I'm
> interested in discussion of general cell hierarchy.
>
>
>
> --Sam
>
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