[OpenAFS] AFS on Veritos

[Warren.Yenson@morganstanley.com]

If you mean Veritas VxVM (volume manager) then yes, you can use Veritas.
We certainly use VxVM here to multi-path disks etc.

There were some issues in the old days regarding the length of the device
name being greater than 32 chars, since veritas uses device names of the
type:

     /dev/vx/rdsk/$DISK_GROUP/$VOLUME_NAME

which can quickly reach 32 characters.  This was corrected quite early
(OpenAFS 1.2.3 or thereabouts).




If you are talking about the Veritas File System (VxFS) then no, OpenAFS
doesn't support this as the default.

As Derek and Derrick have mentioned, you need to compile a NAMEI
fileserver to use VxFS.  Note that we have seen some performance hits
using NAMEI fileservers versus the standard hacked-ufs fileservers.
But then, fsck would be much faster using VxFS.  YMMV.


              - Warren

On 18 Nov 2002, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Sorry, you are correct (I was having network problems while
> typing that message).  On Solaris, the NAMEI server is _NOT_
> the default -- you have to specifically compile AFS with an
> option to enable the namei server.
>
> Sorry,
>
> -derek
>
> "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
>
> > Oh. I thought that solaris used the inode based server by default.
> >
> > -- Nathan
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> > Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> > > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:41 PM
> > > To: Martha.Cofran@cexp.com
> > > Cc: Neulinger, Nathan; openafs-info@openafs.org
> > > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] AFS on Veritos
> > >
> > >
> > > It should work if you recompile your Solaris-8 AFS Fileservers to
> > > use the NAMEI Fileserver interface instewad of the inode fileserver.
> > > On Solaris, the NAMEI fileserver is the default.
> > >
> > > -derek
> > >
> > > Martha.Cofran@cexp.com writes:
> > >
> > > > Sorry, Solaris 8
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From:	Neulinger, Nathan [SMTP:nneul@umr.edu]
> > > > > Sent:	Monday, November 18, 2002 11:31 AM
> > > > > To:	Martha.Cofran@cexp.com; openafs-info@openafs.org
> > > > > Subject:	RE: [OpenAFS] AFS on Veritos
> > > > >
> > > > > On what platform?
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Nathan
> > > > >
> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> > > > > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> > > > > Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: Martha.Cofran@cexp.com [mailto:Martha.Cofran@cexp.com]
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:29 PM
> > > > > > To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> > > > > > Cc: Martha.Cofran@cexp.com
> > > > > > Subject: [OpenAFS] AFS on Veritos
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does anyone know if you can use a veritos volume as your
> > > > > > /vicepx partition?
> > > > > > Or does the partition need to reside on local disk?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for you input.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Martha Cofran
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> > > --
> > >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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