[OpenAFS] Re: afsd.fuse usage?

Matt W. Benjamin matt@linuxbox.com
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:58:33 -0400 (EDT)


Hi Troy,

When I just recently used fuse UKERNEL I did the following:

  afsd.fuse -memcache -mountdir /fafs -cachedir /vcache -d

and got initial results.  I haven't worked much with it yet, but the cm started and responded to vfsops.

Matt

----- "Troy Benjegerdes" <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:

> Something is broken or not returning particularly useful error
> messages:
> 
> hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse /tmp/afs
> fuse: bad mount point `': No such file or directory
> hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse -- /tmp/afs
> fuse: bad mount point `--': No such file or directory
> hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse -- -d /tmp/afs
> fuse: bad mount point `-d': No such file or directory
> hozer@six:~$ /usr/sbin/afsd.fuse -debug -- -d /tmp/afs
> fuse: bad mount point `-d': No such file or directory
> 
> hozer@six:~$ dpkg -l openafs-fuse
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                    Version                 Description
> +++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
> ii  openafs-fuse            1.6.0-1                 AFS distributed
> file system experimental FUSE client
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:19:32PM -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:22:08 -0500
> > Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I can't seem to find any documentation on afsd.fuse... Is there a
> > > HOWTO, or something? What works, what doesn't?
> > 
> > It accepts all of the options that afsd does, and should behave in
> the
> > same way. Give it a mountdir and a cachedir and it'll "mount" AFS
> in
> > that dir and use the given cache directory.
> > 
> > What should work is unauthenticated file access to AFS; everything
> else
> > does not. So, you can't get authenticated access (unless you use
> host
> > ACLs; but please don't use host ACLs), and you can't use any
> utilities
> > like 'fs' with it.
> > 
> > In developers terms, there's no pioctl, but anything that doesn't
> > require a pioctl should work. We just haven't created a way to
> specify
> > "which cache manager do I communicate with?", so a pioctl call
> wouldn't
> > know who to talk to.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Andrew Deason
> > adeason@sinenomine.net
> > 
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