Important notes

On phobos, /root/.zshenv now contains

PATH=/usr/heimdal/bin:/usr/afs/bin:$PATH

Building OpenAFS-OSD

To build openafs, kernel headers are recommended to be installed (so configure can detect the local sysname). On SL5, as root do a

yum install kernel-devel

and you're set (for the time being). If there's still no /usr/src/linux:

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-i686 /usr/src/linux

...or whatever directory the kernel source was installed to.

In the openafs-version directory:

mkdir `sys`
cd `sys`
../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --with-krb5-conf --enable-bitmap-later --enable-bos-restricted-mode --enable-fast-restart --enable-bos-new-config --enable-supergroups --enable-transarc-paths --enable-object-storage --enable-osd-policies

Quick RPM creation

See TestCellSetup/IncludingFileservers.

Enabeling the client

Manually:

From the source directory copy

src/libafs/MODLOAD-`uname -r`-*/libafs.ko

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/openafs/libafs.ko

```
depmod 
```

or
- install appropriate kernel module RPM
reboot
launch afsd

Enabling OSD

[iokaste] ~ # vos setfields osdtestvol2 -osd 1

Performance

Server version	Clients version	process	max. throughput [MB/s]
1.4.7.osd.r302.sec	1.4.7.osd.r302.sec	fileserver	160
		rxosd	120
1.4.7		fileserver	160
1.4.8		fileserver	125
1.4.10		fileserver	125
1.4.8.osd.r573x		fileserver	125
		rxosd	100
	1.4.10.osd.nosvn	fileserver	125
		rxosd	72
1.4.7		fileserver	160
1.4.8		fileserver	125
1.4.10		fileserver	125
	1.4.10	fileserver	125
1.4.7		fileserver	160

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-= Issues =

== Missing token is not handled well ==
{{{ 
$ osd volumes io -lun 1
RX xdr error
Cannot list volumes
Request aborted.
    
$ osd createv io 1 536870924
Createvolume failed: RXOSD_create_part ended with 13
Request aborted.}}}

In general, missing privileges are an issue but there is no "friendly output" describing the cause of the problem. Some examples of unprivileged access attempts:
|| '''fs osd''' || Error 13 reading length of metadata || works with '''r''' privilege granted to system:anyuser ||
|| '''osd read''' || RX xdr error \\ Cannot read the object \\ rx_End``Call returns:  13 \\ Request aborted. || requires token ||
|| '''osd volumes''' || RX xdr error \\ Cannot list volumes \\ Request aborted. || requires token ||
|| '''osd examine''' || RXOSD_examine failed with code 13 \\ Request aborted. || requires token ||

Database queries '''osd listosds''' and '''osd servers''' seem to work unauthenticated.

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