Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation

[Holger Brueckner]

> Hi there, I'm trying to get an openafs server up and running on a gento
1.0 rc6 test 11 box.

nice .. i'm not the only gentooer now :)

> Following the gentoo afs install guide, I got up to step 20,
> "./vos create xxxx /vicepa root.afs -cell xxxx -noauth" (where xxxx are
the appropriate values for my server and cell)
> which then fails with
> "Failed to create the volume root.afs 536870927
> : Input/output error
> Error in vos create command.
>: Input/output error"

do you actually have a real partition mounted on /vicepa ?!? what filesystem
??

> I've insmod'ed '/etc/afs/modload/libafs-2.4.10-ac3.mp.o' (the libafs
module for my 2.4.10-ac3 kernel), but I still get
> the above error.

There are problems with recent kernels .. the kernel developers recently
like to change the inode definition in every new release :( ... i just
updated the ebuild to the latest openafs version .. it should be in portage
soon (currently testing if it builds ok). update your portage tree (emerge
rsync) and try emerging openafs-1.2.1-r6.ebuild

i'm not sure if it will work with 2.4.10 though ... it should work with
2.4.9-ac10 which i'm using ...

cya

Holger

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation

[Geoff]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Brueckner" <lists@net-labs.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation


> > Hi there, I'm trying to get an openafs server up and running on a gento
> 1.0 rc6 test 11 box.
>
> nice .. i'm not the only gentooer now :)
>
> > Following the gentoo afs install guide, I got up to step 20,
> > "./vos create xxxx /vicepa root.afs -cell xxxx -noauth" (where xxxx are
> the appropriate values for my server and cell)
> > which then fails with
> > "Failed to create the volume root.afs 536870927
> > : Input/output error
> > Error in vos create command.
> >: Input/output error"
>
> do you actually have a real partition mounted on /vicepa ?!? what
filesystem
> ??

Yup, after much muddling, and a few repeats of 'cannot interpret partition
name blah', I made a new ext2 partition and mounted it at /vicepa. I'm
hoping the ext2 bit it temporary as I'm going to have a bit too much data on
some of my afs volumes to run a non-journaling filesystem - does reiserfs
work with afs yet?

The partition is an LVM logical volume - are there any afs LVM issues I
should be wary of?

> > I've insmod'ed '/etc/afs/modload/libafs-2.4.10-ac3.mp.o' (the libafs
> module for my 2.4.10-ac3 kernel), but I still get
> > the above error.
>
> There are problems with recent kernels .. the kernel developers recently
> like to change the inode definition in every new release :( ... i just
> updated the ebuild to the latest openafs version .. it should be in
portage
> soon (currently testing if it builds ok). update your portage tree (emerge
> rsync) and try emerging openafs-1.2.1-r6.ebuild
>
> i'm not sure if it will work with 2.4.10 though ... it should work with
> 2.4.9-ac10 which i'm using ...

Maybe I'll try that kernel later if things continue to not work :)

Thanks for the help!

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation

[Holger Brueckner]

> Yup, after much muddling, and a few repeats of 'cannot interpret partition
> name blah', I made a new ext2 partition and mounted it at /vicepa. I'm
> hoping the ext2 bit it temporary as I'm going to have a bit too much data
on
> some of my afs volumes to run a non-journaling filesystem - does reiserfs
> work with afs yet?

hmm, this is strange .. i got a afs server here where the vice partitions
are reiserfs
it's running kernel 2.2.19 though, since 3ware support is better for that
kernel.

> The partition is an LVM logical volume - are there any afs LVM issues I
> should be wary of?

i don't know about that ... sorry

> Maybe I'll try that kernel later if things continue to not work :)
 :)

cya

Holger

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation

[Z]

Nifty :)

The new 1.2.1 ebuild seems to work nicely -- I can now create volumes.

I'm now stuck on step 23 :)

>> /usr/afs/bin/fs setacl /afs system:anyuser rl
fails with 'fs: File '/afs' doesn't exist'

Any pointers?

Thanks,
-geoff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Brueckner" <lists@net-labs.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation


> > Yup, after much muddling, and a few repeats of 'cannot interpret
partition
> > name blah', I made a new ext2 partition and mounted it at /vicepa. I'm
> > hoping the ext2 bit it temporary as I'm going to have a bit too much
data
> on
> > some of my afs volumes to run a non-journaling filesystem - does
reiserfs
> > work with afs yet?
>
> hmm, this is strange .. i got a afs server here where the vice partitions
> are reiserfs
> it's running kernel 2.2.19 though, since 3ware support is better for that
> kernel.

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation

[Holger Brueckner]

> >> /usr/afs/bin/fs setacl /afs system:anyuser rl
> fails with 'fs: File '/afs' doesn't exist'

hmmm is /afs a directory ?!? and rereading the install guide .. i think you
should do
start the afs client before doing step 23 and 24. (look into the initscript
/etc/init.d/afs
to see what you need to customize)

btw .. it's a good idea to have ibm's afs doku .. (very very big !!)
it's in /usr/portage/app-doc/afsdoc

cya

Holger