[OpenAFS] Question on virus-scanning

[Derek Atkins]

Set up a recursive loop early in the AFS tree that points
to a dedicated honeypot AFS server and then talk to the
owners of any laptops that communicate to this server on
a regular basis?

-derek

Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:

> We are soon going to have students who will have laptops with
> openafs installed.  In previous years we had students connect
> to a unix machine running samba, and that machine gave them
> access to the AFS cell at RPI.  I'm the guy who keeps an eye
> on our samba server machine.
> 
> One thing I noticed is that every once-in-awhile some student
> gets their laptop setup so their virus-checker program is
> scanning all of AFS space for viruses.  I can see these as a
> single SMB process which keeps chewing 20% of a CPU for hours
> and hours (for days, if I don't do something about it).
> 
> Luckily this only happens on less than 1% of the laptops, but
> it can still be annoying.  Does anyone notice problems with
> this for WinXP machines which have OpenAFS installed on it?
> Any good way to minimize the impact, or at least rapidly
> notice what's happening on the file-server side?
> 
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