From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 11 14: 3:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CE137B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:03:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2BM3MrT099232; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:03:22 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4252.1015867433@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <4252.1015867433@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:03:21 -0500 To: Poul-Henning Kamp From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Cc: Harti Brandt , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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