AFS on FreeBSD 8?

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de> wrote:
> On 05/18/10 18:10, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> opt_global.h should be coming from your kernel's build tree ...
>
> Yeah, sorry, I asked the same question before. (I never did a buildworld or
> buildkernel on this machine after installing from the release build and
> using freebsd-update.) I try to remember next time.
>
>> On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>>>
>>> I have upgraded almost all of my machines from i386 to amd64 and would
>>> like to repeat the OpenAFS testing -- even though you suspect it is
>>> SMP, which applies to all machines available to me.
>
> On amd64, the listing of the directories was instant unlike on i386. Reading
> (small) files caused no problems, but I was able to crash the machine
> accessing some weird entry (some object that OpenAFS on Linux shows with "?"
> for the file permissions) and -- more realistically -- deadlock all access
> to afs upon trying to copy a large file to afs.

does
cmdebug (yourhost)
return anything?

>> I expect that you will find AFS more usable if you set
>> kern.smp.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf, which will make your machine
>> effectively single-processor.
>
> I just tried that and copying a large file to afs caused a deadlock of afs,
> too. I guess it is not just SMP.
>
> I have not tried copying smaller files or starting afsd with different
> parameters than suggested in the ports README (-dynroot -fakestat-all -afsdb
> -memcache -daemons 4).



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Derrick