[285] in Moira
Some moira questions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Tue Apr 2 14:54:10 1991
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 12:51:58 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: george@antlia.ECE.CMU.EDU
Cc: moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: George's message of Tue, 02 Apr 91 10:36:27 EST <9104021536.AA08723@antlia.ECE.CMU.EDU>
I haven't used Dec's Ultrix/SQL and can't comment on that. However,
we are using Moira to manage AFS here at Athena.
There are currently 2 things we have moira doing for AFS: maintaining
the protection database and setting quotas. Moira is not creating
lockers or doing other filesystem management. Because of the
management interface that AFS provides, we cannot do bulk reloads of
AFS the way we are for the rest of our services (it would take more
than 24 hours to load the info...). We do incremental updates
instead, exec'ing pts or fs as appropriate. We also occasionally have
to syncronize the protection database with the moira database because
of failures during incremental updates or moira changes made via
Ingres instead of the server.
Much of the code for this is in the current moira release. However, a
few parts of it (notably the database synchonization) involve Transarc
proprietary code that we can't give away.
-Mark
