Re: What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

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Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>>  > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
>>  > OpenAFS
>>  >
>>  > http://www.openafs.org
>>  >
>>  > Does all this. Works great. Super stable. Server and client software
>>  > for many platforms.
>>  >
>>  > pj
>>  >
>>  >
>>  Is there an afs for fedora?
>>
> 
> Yes, there are RPMS for fedora on www.openafs.org.  They also offer
> the SRPM file so you can build the kernel module for some other
> kernel.
> 
> It works great here.
> 
> Right now, the client I run some RPMS I built myself because I was
> testing the koji kernels, but I think the standard updated fedora
> would only need:
> 
> openafs-1.4.6-1.4f8.pj
> openafs-client-1.4.6-1.4f8.pj
> openafs-kernel-1.4.6-2.6.23.15_137.fc8_1
> 
> i'll make these available to you if you want.
> 
> I Will put in
> 
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/i386/kups/packages.
> 
>  In these packages, I've hacked the site setup so that it works for my
> site.  This way, I don't have to go around and customize all lab
> computers.  If you look in the spec file, you'll see some stuff I put
> in there to set those values, you can fiddle for your purpose.
> 
> We don't use the power that afs offers to link together all different
> universities and such, so I don't have that whole web of servers
> enabled.  But you can.  If you use the RPM from the openafs.org, it
> will be a stock installation.
> 
> The openafs guys do have the spec file set up with a fedora option to
> build kernel module kmod-openafs package, but I've been using this so
> long that all our systems look for openafs-kernel and so I don't use
> the special fedora packaging.
> 
> pj

Do I need to setup kerb first?  Is there any quick guide to this?


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