Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:28:21 -0500 From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow@gmail.com> To: ElBarto <elbarto@arcadebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openafs server executables Message-ID: <db6e3f110812160628y251d4246q281a1997e4e7ed6c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4947B7C4.8030004@arcadebsd.org> References: <37396849@bs1.sp34.ru> <D0A121F456CC44D3AA1FD11CF28E21DE@valentine> <01705453@bs1.sp34.ru> <49453004.9010107@linuxbox.com> <83768316_-_@bs1.sp34.ru> <db6e3f110812160537ia5d1d4fm3d8587cd0dd731ce@mail.gmail.com> <4947B153.5060101@arcadebsd.org> <db6e3f110812160554p2f2748eatc8dc0f722c142350@mail.gmail.com> <4947B7C4.8030004@arcadebsd.org>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:14 AM, ElBarto <elbarto@arcadebsd.org> wrote: > Derrick Brashear wrote: > >> >> >> So if I install openafs-client and openafs-server I'll have fs at >> two different place ? Seems ugly to me. >> >> >> Sounds subjective to me :) >> >> > > What do you propose for the path of the redundant binaries ? > Putting the extra copies in sbin > > > >> As I said vos and bos are useless to an user so they should be in >> the server port. >> >> >> Repeating yourself doesn't make me more likely to agree. >> >> I suppose it depends how atuned to afs the user is but vos will check >> quotas where ACLs do not permit, (think help desk staffed by non admins) and >> bos can be used to verify that a server is unreachable because, say, it >> crashed, or what restart times are. (same idea) >> >> As a student I used them for those purposes uncompensated. >> > > fs listquota is not enough for you ? (it's a real question, not ironic) fs lq /afs/dementia.org/usr/shadow and tell me the quota. Then vos examine user.shadow -c dementia.org > I kind of disagree for splitting the openafs ports cause as you say some > commands are useful (more or less) for both client and server part, but as > it seems that it's going to be that way, I want the port to be clean and > with no redundancy. > The thing is you can't use the some vos command without a client (vos dump, > restore etc ...) but those commands are not intend to users. vos dump can be used without a client. > > Quoting the openafs administration reference : > > The commands in the vos command suite are the administrative interface to > the Volume Server and Volume Location (VL) Server. System administrators use > vos commands to create, move, delete, replicate, back up and examine > volumes, among other operations. > > But I think you know that but know you see my point. > You could say that I am intimately versed in the functionality of the pieces and their intended and actual purposes. > > > -- > Emmanuel Vadot > elbarto@arcadebsd.org > > -- Derrick
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