[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Issue 5, September 2009
Jason Edgecombe
jason@rampaginggeek.com
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:28:22 -0400
Here is a late addition to the newsletter:
Google Summer of Code project - Windows Management Console
Progress is rolling with the management console. It can be built with
nmake now for both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. It installs and runs.
Current tasks are polishing any install issues and bringing the
console up to full functionality. After talking with Jeff, there will
also be some redesigning of the user interface from the prototyped
user interface to have a less cluttered user interface and to better
follow the MMC 3.0 Guidelines.
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> Here is the September 2009 issue of the OpenAFS Newsletter. An HTML
> version is available at
> http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2009-09-volume001-issue05.html
>
>
>
> OpenAFS Newsletter, Issue 5, September 2009
> Welcome to the fifth issue of the OpenAFS newsletter. This newsletter
> summarizes what is happening in the OpenAFS community.
>
> As always, volunteers, patches, bug reports, or any other type of help
> is greatly appreciated.
>
> Feedback on this newsletter is welcome. The goal is to summarize the
> various development efforts and news of OpenAFS for the community.
> Please let Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> know what
> you would like to see out of this newsletter. Any news about
> AFS-related
> projects is welcome and may be submitted to Jason for inclusion in the
> next newsletter.
>
> The current and past issues of this newsletter are available at
> <http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/>
>
> General OpenAFS Progress
> OpenAFS 1.5.62 was released on August 28, 2009. Highlights of this
> release include several critical bugfixes and support for Mac OS X
> Snow
> Leopard. 1.4.11 is still the recommended release for all Unix
> platforms,
> including Snow Leopard. Testing of the 1.5.62 version on Unix
> platforms
> is encouraged.
>
> Russ Allbery gave an update on the progress of a non-profit
> organization
> for OpenAFS. The Elders have decided that there are multiple issues,
> including on-going funding, that make the formation of a non-profit
> problematic at this time. In the interim, the Elders have voted
> unanimously to approach the Software Freedom Conservancy and request
> membership. The Elders will move forward with forming a foundation
> once
> the economy picks up. For more information and some important details,
> read Russ' announcement at:
> <http://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2009/000303.html>
>
> Events
> AFS Hackathon
> The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh will be
> hosting
> an AFS Hackathon 22-24 September (immediately before the European AFS
> Conference). All OpenAFS developers are welcome to attend - please see
> the email to openafs-announce for details, and RSVP to
> sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk
>
> European AFS Meeting
> The University Roma Tre will host the 2009 European AFS Meeting from
> September 28-30. The European workshop is mainly a platform for system
> administrators to exchange their knowledge and report use cases.
> Topics
> of interest include related technologies like Kerberos or LDAP and all
> supported operating systems.
>
> For more details, go to <http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~afscon09/>
>
> Annual Best Practices Workshop
> Plans are already underway for the seventh Workshop, to be held May
> 24-28, 2010, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We
> hope
> to see you there.
>
> Projects
> *BSD Support
> Project Contacts:
>
> * Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com>
>
> I've been working on NetBSD client targeting master. I've sent a
> number
> of changes, most committed, preparing for this. My plan is to have
> something committed by the EU AFS Conference in Rome.
>
> Extended Callback Information
> Project Contacts:
>
> * Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com>
>
> The dependencies have begun to merge on the master branch (MCAS and
> all
> changes are merged, miniosi is in review, XCB changesets will follow).
>
> Kerberos v5 and Multiple Encryption Types
> Project Contacts:
>
> * Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com>
>
> * Marcus Watts <mwd@umich.edu>
>
> Marcus is preparing a draft paper describing the protocol and
> implementation details. (I've read a draft.) It is planned to be
> published in the next week or so. We began submitting split-out Rxk5
> changesets, the gatekeepers want to put these on a work-in-process git
> branch, more TBD.
>
> --Matt (Ed: Received Sept 4, 2009)
>
> Better Documentation
> Project Contacts:
>
> * Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
>
> * Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>
>
> Jason updated sections 3.2 through 3.4 of chapter 2 in the Admin
> Guide.
> Information about cross-realm trusts and foreign PTS users was
> included.
> The instructions for submitting entries to the public CellServDB were
> updated. Some text about using Freelance and Dynamic Root modes to
> find
> foreign cells was added.
>
> Demand-Attach FileServer (DAFS)
> Project Contacts:
>
> * Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>
>
> * Tom Keiser <tkeiser@sinenomine.net>
>
> * Mike Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>
>
> Only one or two DAFS issues remain that we believe are critical:
> 124484
> (volumes not salvaged on first access from volserver), and possibly
> 124487 (fileserver/salvageserver lock up). 124487 may already be fixed
> by a recently-merged patch for 124486 (fileserver hangs on
> shutdown), so
> 124484 may be the only remaining critical issue.
>
> All other issues beyond those are either performance issues or are
> relatively minor. Once they are fixed, we consider DAFS to be
> production-ready, lacking any other issues. We can't fix issues we
> don't
> know about, though, so testing DAFS is greatly appreciated. Even if it
> may not appropriate for production in arbitrary critical environments
> quite yet, DAFS is definitely usable in its current state if you
> want to
> try it out.
>
> If you are interested in trying out DAFS, Steven Jenkins has
> written up
> how to get started with it here:
>
> <http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/06/getting-started-with-demand-attach.html>
>
>
> --Andrew
>
> Userspace cache manager
> Project Contact:
>
> * Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>
>
> I have a working userspace unix OpenAFS client implemented via
> FUSE, and
> perl bindings to libuafs (via SWIG). Neither are as fully-featured as
> the kernel cache manager yet, but they are sufficient for simple
> filesystem access, and can be used to simulate multiple clients from a
> single machine.
>
> The code is not in the main repository yet, as I need to clean up some
> of the libuafs modifications, and make it play nice with the other
> users
> of libuafs. If you want to mess around with them, though, feel free to
> contact me.
>
> Mac OS X OpenAFS Preference Pane
> Project Contact:
>
> * Claudio Bisegni <Claudio.Bisegni@lnf.infn.it>
>
> The work done on the preference pane was directed to clean the code
> for
> deprecated API's and adjustment for Snow Leopard. NSMenuExtra is a
> private API that was never supported and has been changed to a
> Background Only Application (AFSBackgrounder) that uses
> NSStatusItem to
> show the OpenAFS lock icon on the OS X menu bar. The
> AFSBackgrounder is
> also used to get a token at login time.
>
> Google Summer of Code 2009
> OpenAFS received four slots for the 2009 Google Summer of Code.
>
> Go to <http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/openafs>
> for
> more information about the GSoC projects.
>
> The following projects did not give a status update:
>
> * Implementing OpenAFS Features into RedHat's kafs Kernel Module
>
> * OpenAFS Management Console on Windows
>
> * OpenAFS Server Preference Based on Network Conditions
>
> Projects with no progress or no update
> * Disconnected AFS support
>
> * Pthreaded Ubik
>
> * Rx OSD integration & Raw Vicep Access in Clients
>
> Resolved Tickets
> Here is a list of tickets that have been resolved since August 1,
> 2009:
>
> ticket # state created title
> 108199: resolved Jul 21, 2008 Incomplete file transfer : Bug
> Report
> 125211: resolved Aug 12, 2009 OpenAFS 1.5.61 says invalid cell
> during install
> 125217: resolved Aug 13, 2009 OpenAFS configure script of the
> source RPM doen't handle INIT_WORK_HAS_DATA macro correctly on SLES-11
> 125220: resolved Aug 13, 2009 Bug Report
> 125298: resolved Aug 28, 2009 find_task_by_vpid removed in
> kernel 2.6.31
> 125301: resolved Aug 28, 2009 OpenAFS 1.5.62 version discrepancy
>
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