[2598] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: New AFS server status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jan 2 04:38:04 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Dec 1996 22:59:16 GMT."
<199612282259.WAA24918@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 04:37:47 EST
> * 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
I don't think we are ready to go to Solaris AFS servers yet. ASO did
some testing of Solaris AFS server binaries, before deciding to go
with SunOS. At the time I believe that there was one outstanding bug
in the ptserver that would cause the fileserver processes to spin on
startup (or somethign like that). It is possible that probe supplied
a patch for that, but we certainly want to do some extensive before
considering this. In other words I support Greg's decision to stick
with SunOS for now.
> 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.
I should have mentioned this earlier, but when I was in the machine
room the other night, helping Matt with a DNS problem, it looked like
the new machine was logging SCSI errors of some sort.
Jonathon
