[OpenAFS] Dear Transarc, I Quit! Love, Moose

[Douglas E. Engert]

John Hascall wrote:
> 
> I too would like to express my thanks to IBM/Transarc/name-of-the-week
> for sticking a big fat knife in my workplace politics.  As far as I know
> they *still* haven't produced a patched version for Digital/Compaq/HP/whatever
> Unix which we still have on some of our servers (including our AFS DBs).
> 

Well, in defense of Transarc, as a former Transarc contact, I received two
notes yesterday that last one sent at Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:32:26 -0500 stating:

> AFS Contacts -
> 
> Fixes are now available for the AFS v3.6 Solaris, HP, and Linux system types. 
> Builds for the remaining system types are still underway and will be placed in
> the anonymous ftp directories indicated below as they complete. Please check 
> the anonymous ftp location periodically for fixes to the remaining system types.
> 
> Fixes needed to correct this problem are applied only to the database server 
> binaries in your cell (buserver, ptserver, vlserver, kaserver). Changes are not
> required for your AFS clients or fileserver machines.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kelly
> 
> Kelly Chambers
> Manager, AFS Product Support & Development
> IBM Pittsburgh Lab
> kchamb@us.ibm.com
> 412-667-6930 - (T/L 989-6930)

The first note announced aix patches, and the ftp site. I fid not include the 
FTP site, you may want to contact them.


> Seriously, my real thanks go to the OpenAFS developers and community
> for giving me a way to put our cell back together on a critical
> weekend without any eye-bleeding.
> 
> John
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > the longer story:
> >
> > Until today, the AFS servers at the PSC ran Transarc 3.5, patch
> > {mumble}.  I never put 3.6 on them, for some bizarre reason I can't
> > recall anymore.  For months, I've wanted to install OpenAFS on them,
> > but due to politics, couldn't do so without bringing up a "test cell"
> > to prove that it would all work easily.  I was supposed to get that
> > cell running over break, but got sick instead.
> >
> > Being part of CMU, I get to talk online with folks at CMU and MIT
> > using zephyr, MIT's magical communication toy.  When I left the house
> > at 8:30am, some MIT folk were crowing about "Happy New Bit Day" and
> > the whole 2^30 thing.
> >
> > When I got back to the house at 11 am, Jeff Hutzleman says:
> >      Hey, moose.. You want to upgrade your dbservers soon.
> >      I suggest a couple of hours ago.
> >
> > First I tried patching and recompiling the Transarc 3.5 source.
> > Everyone who's ever done this, who is NOT an ex-ITC or -Transarc
> > employee, and has not bled from both eyes, please raise your hand.
> >
> > By 2:30pm my servers were happily running OpenAFS 1.2.11.
> >
> > We're still running a few IBM-AFS clients here and there, but now
> > we're almost completely an OpenAFS shop.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >      ecf@psc.edu     Esther Filderman    moose+@cmu.edu
> >             Senior System Mangler & AFS Dominatrix
> >                Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
> >
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