[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3

[Tim C.]

  I've been watching this thread with some interest.  My two coworkers
have been using their powerbooks, running 10.3 and openafs 1.2.10+ since
10.3 came out.  They've had minor complaints, but no panics.  I have
been using a mac with 10.3 and openafs 1.2.11a for the past week or two,
and haven't had any problem what so ever with it.  We all suspend and
resume our macs, we switch between 2 or 3 networks(ip changes)
regularly, and use afs fairly heavily.  They are all patched up to the
latest software updates.  So I'm curious as to why everyone else is
having the problems, and we haven't.
  The only problems I have noticed are the following:

* Without network, some programs tend to hang when doing finder stuff if
afs is on, without network.  I believe this will be fixed by using
-fakestat-all, but I haven't tested it yet.

* When switching networks, afs needs to break callbacks.  A fs checkvol
does the trick.

* I have 1.2.11a installed, but using rxdebug localhost 7001 -ve returns
1.2.10, just with a newer build date.  Is this on purpose?

Just a few of my thoughts on the matter. :)

Tim

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jason Ferrara wrote:

> Which brings me to ask again, is there anyone in charge of the darwin
> port
> of OpenAFS? Or has it been abandoned?
>
> On Feb 6, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote:
>
> >
> > --On den 6 februari 2004 19:40 +0100 Massimo Marino
> > <Massimo_Marino@lbl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >> First: I am not flaming but it might be important to know for people
> >> in
> >> charge that it is not AFS per se: I use Arla with OS X 10.3 and the
> >> system is as solid as it could be. Never had a single kernel panic in
> >> two
> >> years now and AFS is on daily.
> >
> > I sure don't want to flame anyone either, but I have to say that
> > this is my experience too. We have been using Arla since 10.0,
> > and very seldom have panics, and I have never seen one that
> > I couldn't relate to something else (maybe in combination with
> > arla, it was for example before very easy to trig a panic by
> > fooling around with mounting urls with the command line tools,
> > I never tried it without arla).
> >
> > We are now testing OpenAFS with 10.3, since we felt that there
> > is currently more programming effort going into OpenAFS than
> > Arla (maybe not on Mac OS X, though), but I think it is far
> > to unstable to be useful. A minute ago I crashed my machine
> > just with a find in a directory in my home directory
> > (which is in afs).
> >
> > These bugs are hopefully easy to smash, OpenAFS works very well
> > on many other operating systems, but is there anyone working on it?
> >
> > Sadly I don't know enough about unix filesystems and and unix
> > virtual memory to easily get going myself.
> >
> > /ragge
> >
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