Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:03:21 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <p05101549b8b2cd88059d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <4252.1015867433@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <4252.1015867433@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 6:23 PM +0100 3/11/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message , Garance A Drosihn writes: > >Okay. I had misunderstood what you were saying in the >>earlier message. As long as it works for the AFS/ARLA >>case I'll be happy. I get a little uneasy about these >>things, because I expect that very few freebsd'ers work >>in an AFS world, and solutions which will be perfectly >>fine for NFS mounts might have scaling problems when >>used for AFS. > >But you could do me a favour: Write up a piece of text >which gives enough info for somebody like me to setup >and test AFS/ARLA in my lab... Hmm. This is a very reasonable request, but I am not sure I have a good answer... Does your lab have reasonably-fast connectivity to the internet at large? If so, then I could see about writing something for setting up a machine as an AFS client and having it pretend it is part of some already-existing AFS cell. I do not actually use OpenAFS or ARLA on my freebsd systems, but I certainly do want to figure that out. If you do not have a fast network connection, then you would need to set up your own AFS server. I do not know how to do that, and I am pretty sure it is not something that someone could do in an afternoon. The AFS cell at RPI has 600-gigabytes of disk space in it, so I haven't had much of an urge to start my own server! On the other hand, I would really really like to get at that 600-gig from FreeBSD clients. There is a web site for openafs, at www.openafs.org. That has downloadable client installations forMacOS 10, some versions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and Tru64 Unix. That web site does not have a client for the Net,Open, or FreeBSD's. Most of the BSD's probably go with the ARLA port for their AFS client. Unfortunately, I noticed that someone else just mentioned that the ARLA port is broken on current -- and here I just switched to running current. Sigh... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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