[OpenAFS] scripts for automatic installation + client cache questions

[klaas hagemann]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: "Klaas Hagemann" <kerberos@northsailor.de>
Cc: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] scripts for automatic installation + client cache
questions


> "Klaas Hagemann" <kerberos@northsailor.de> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > i am currently trying to write scripts for an automatic setup for
> > openafs-file-servers and dbms-servers.
> > Therefor i use the bos exec command quite a lot.
> > But when adding a new server, i have to restart all servers.
> > So i want a "bos exec host "/etc/init.d/afs restart"
> > But it ends up with a communication failure. Does someone have an idea
for a
> > workaround for this?
>
> No, because the bosserver get's killed before the command completes.
> Is there any particular reason you don't use "bos
restart -all -bosserver"?
Thankys, i have not known this option yet. Thanks a lott, i think that is
exactly for what i was looking for.
Yes, RTFM sometimes help.....

>
> > Then i have got another question:
> > what are the advances for an own partition for the client on
> > /usr/vice/cache?
> > Currently, i do not have a seperate partition for it and it works good.
>
> Basically, if your cache partition fills, AFS is screwed.  The benefit
> of having your own AFS cache partition is that if only AFS uses the
> partition you are guaranteed that it will never fill to capacity.  If
> you share the cache partition, then you have to always worry about how
> much space is left, because AFS will crash ungracefully in the face of
> a full cache (or worse, it could destroy data).
Ok, i thought of something like that. But there is no performance increase?

Thanks, Klaas


>
> > Thanks for your answers
> > Klaas
>
> -derek
>
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