[OpenAFS] filedrawers at other sites?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:42:46 -0400


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On 9/21/07, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 21 Sep 2007, at 19:23, Dave Botsch wrote:
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> > Those of you who have successfully deployed filedrawers elsewhere,
> > how did you
> > do it? What problems / changes did you run into / have to make?
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> We're running it with Apache 1.3. The service was prototyped using
> modauthkerb for authentication, and we're now using cosign. The
> service hasn't moved to production yet, but it seems solid.
>
> There were a couple of hardcoded Michigan settings in the code (in
> particular, with the username -> afs directory location mapping
> routine) that we had to change, but apart from that the installation
> was fairly painless.
>
> There are issues with the speed with which mod_waklog creates and
> destroys authentication contexts that can cause problems for your
> fileservers (there were some patches posted here a while back to
> allow the tuning of timeouts to work round this). Our load hasn't
> been high enough to trigger these problems yet.



Are you thinking of the PAG creation throttling in the cache manager? Or did
I miss something else?

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Wilkinson</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk">sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 21 Sep 2007, at 19:23, Dave Botsch wrote:<br><br>&gt; Those of you who have successfully deployed filedrawers elsewhere,<br>&gt; how did you<br>&gt; do it? What problems / changes did you run into / have to make?<br>
<br>We&#39;re running it with Apache 1.3. The service was prototyped using<br>modauthkerb for authentication, and we&#39;re now using cosign. The<br>service hasn&#39;t moved to production yet, but it seems solid.<br><br>There were a couple of hardcoded Michigan settings in the code (in
<br>particular, with the username -&gt; afs directory location mapping<br>routine) that we had to change, but apart from that the installation<br>was fairly painless.<br><br>There are issues with the speed with which mod_waklog creates and
<br>destroys authentication contexts that can cause problems for your<br>fileservers (there were some patches posted here a while back to<br>allow the tuning of timeouts to work round this). Our load hasn&#39;t<br>been high enough to trigger these problems yet.
</blockquote><div><br><br>Are you thinking of the PAG creation throttling in the cache manager? Or did I miss something else?<br>&nbsp;<br></div><br></div><br>

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