[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Deadline- Jan 9! CFP: 2009 OpenAFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop

[Chaz Chandler]

Number five tops my list=21

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steven.jenkins=40gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:03:16 -0500
> To: openafs-info=40openafs.org
> Subject: =5BOpenAFS=5D Re: =5BOpenAFS-devel=5D Deadline- Jan 9=21 CFP: =
2009 OpenAFS
> & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop
>=20
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Esther Filderman <mizmoose=40gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> This is a reminder that the Call for Participation for the 2009
>> OpenAFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop will end Friday January 9,
>> 2009.
>=20
>=20
> The following is a set of topics I'm interested in presenting, and I'd
> like to get some feedback from potential attendees -- which of these
> would be most/more useful?
>=20
> 1- Cache tuning: examples of things people do with filesystems and how
> to tune your cache and architect your namespace to make those perform
> better.  This will use standard performance monitoring utilities,
> server audit logs, client performance statistics, and network traces.
> Suggestions for particular performance cases welcomed.
>=20
> 2- Examples of some scalability issues in OpenAFS and how to see what
> those issues/limits are in your environment before they happen to you
> in production.  The set of questions is tentatively:
> - do I need faster/bigger hardware?
> - can I consolidate fileservers?
> - should I replicate more ROs?
> - can I safely double the amount of disk on my fileservers?
> - can I safely double the number of clients I have in my cell?
>=20
> 4- VLDB internals and tricks: the structure of the vldb and things you
> can do with the the various vldb utilities, including dumping it to
> XML, editing that, and then rebuilding your vldb
>=20
> 5- A description of the life of an SA in a well-run OpenAFS cell,
> complete with examples of the tools and utilities that are running for
> monitoring the health of the system so the SA can rest peacefully, the
> delegation mechanisms in place so that users can handle their own
> admin, the architectural layout so that the network people are happy,
> etc)
>=20
> 6- how to determine if you should split existing cells and how to
> accomplish that migration with a minimum of pain
>=20
> Thoughts, feedback, suggestions (and requests) welcomed.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Steven Jenkins
> End Point Corporation
> http://www.endpoint.com/
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