From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 29 13:19:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D3616A41F for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:19:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jackt123@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB5643D53 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:19:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jackt123@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so543075nzk for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:19:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c97sVdCIkcNo5TI/adVlh6NE0F3EfoMWSXAcdJUjI06RRyKL0n5FvToQKf8XojA+FM0XftJ2inNs87msEH8Js1XOpNZ/AX6kaZx3rlOg6fUK8zwcI5MyUndP/vYFl/+9dbFDIySF7rSJ/ktW2JqTM+NOoulMnmb9s4DTX3lP8N0= Received: by 10.36.39.2 with SMTP id m2mr24270nzm; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.21.6 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:19:57 +0000 From: Jack T To: Francisco Reyes In-Reply-To: <4362E414.50607@stringsutils.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <435BB6C4.3070705@highperformance.net> <4362E414.50607@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:19:59 -0000 On 10/23/05, Jack T wrote: > It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from > security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works > just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. On 10/29/05, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Is this something that needs to be fixed in the port? > How stable is it? How about performance? > I have been looking into AFS and Arla sounds interesting. It's a known Arla issue (the file overwriting thing), but I believe it's too extensive for us to fix it for them. Arla developers would have to work on it. RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. You can configure a low- and high- watermark for the local cache, so once the files are cached, read is instantaneous, and write+close sometimes would pause if my network is slow. RE:Stability, I haven't encountered bugs. But one issue does come up: often, if I do something like "cat *" or "cp *" a large number of files, and I hit Ctrl-C, it emitts a scary sounding message to syslog (something like "pipe broken due to lack of data" or something). I always fear that may corrupt AFS files somehow, so I don't do that anymore. :)