[2595] in SIPB-AFS-requests
New AFS server status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Dec 28 17:59:33 1996
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 22:59:16 GMT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
I've gone through and installed the changes Matt Power mentioned in
[2586]. I elected to build a new kernel rather than install the one
we're using on reynelda. Some of the files in /etc have
"sipb-server-1" instad of "ronald-ann", because the machine isn't
named ronald-ann yet.
I deleted a few patches from /usr/local/sun-patches because they dealt
with Openwindows, and ops seems to have removed the bulk of
/usr/openwin from their install image.
I'll install the AFS software shortly. As soon as I can get a srvtab
for the machine, people can take a look at it remotely.
A couple of suggestions people have brought up:
* Matt Braun has suggested that I let someone else handle the
install. This would undoubtedly mean that deployment
wouldn't happen before IAP, but it turns out that it's a
fairly narrow outage and we're only at 80% usage right now.
Since the install is already mostly done, I'm going to
ignore that advice for now.
* jhawk has suggested that it might be nice if we could go to
Solaris for AFS service. There might be certain advantages
to this approach (being able to leverage off mkserv), but I
think we should wait for ops to do it first. (In
particular, I don't think we want to be building our own set
of AFS server binaries.) So I'm going
yaz panicked while testing the disks, and there were a lot of errors
logged during testing. I suspect cabling problems (based on earlier
problems); I will try replacing the cabling and redoing the tests.
