Questions tagged [afs]

Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed networked file system.

Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed networked file system.

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What are you using instead of DCE Distributed File System?

What are you using instead of DCE Distributed File System? How does it compare? Or are you still using it? Note that DCE/DFS is not Microsoft Distributed File System
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unpacking tarball with hard links on a file system that doesn't support hard links

I got a tarball (let's say t.tar.gz) that contains the following files ./a/a.txt ./b/b.txt where ./b/b.txt is a hard link to ./a/a.txt. I want to unpack the tarball on a network file system (AFS) that only supports hard links in the same directory…
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Keep kerberos ticket across sudo invocation

On a regular linux machine, when I use sudo -s as a normal user, I become root but HOME still points to ~user, so every admin has his own environment etc. (this is without env_reset or always_set_home set). On a system where the home directories…
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Why do I get permission denied error when I log out of the SSH session?

I have to run some tests on a server at the University. I have ssh access to the server from the desktop in my office. I want to launch a python script on the server that will run several tests during the weekend. The desktop in the office will go…
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OpenAFS suddenly fails: a pioctl failed while obtaining tokens

My afs client stopped working. I'm not sure why - maybe I ran apt-get ? Anyways: user@box ~ $ kinit [email protected]'s Password: user@box ~ $ aklog aklog: a pioctl failed while obtaining tokens for cell ies.auc.dk Checking status of…
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Is it crazy to consider keeping my home directory on OpenAFS?

I am a sysadmin by trade, and I do what I do at work at home as well for fun. I have a Gentoo Linux laptop, Raspberry Pis running Raspian, a Gentoo server, ARM devices running Debian and have various Android devices. I'm always wrestling and…
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How can I stop dolphin from reading my entire home directory tree in order to make it usable on AFS?

At work, I would like to use KDE's dolphin as a file manager. However, our home directories reside on an AFS share [1]. When starting dolphin, it becomes unresponsive for dozens of minutes. stracing it reveals that it tries to open all the nodes in…
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Screen loses permissions after ssh disconnection

I have a long running bash script that I run on a remote host with screen, so I can log off ssh. When I come back after some time (after logging off), the screen terminal no longer has permissions to access my files and folders. What's causing this,…
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log file for storing outputs on stdout and stderr isn't created

I am running a long running script on a Scientific Linux server with Kerberos and Andrew file system, by myscript.sh >log 2>&1 & Upon starting the command, I didn't see a file called log in the current directory, but saw a file called .__afs063D…
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Where are AFS tokens stored, and how do I get them into running Screen session

I have the following situation, I have a running GNU screen session where I can't access AFS anymore - my token has expired. I can however access it from a new shell. The difference to this question is that I don't have a Kerberos ticket (well, not…
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Can I get "Permission denied" when running out of space?

I am running smrtanalysis software which is very demanding in terms of cpu, RAM and storage. After running for couple of hours, I got following error message: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:…
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screen session loses contact to AFS file system

Our $HOME file system is an openAFS system. I log on to my desktop machine from my laptop at home and want to run a long job. Thus to protect it from a broken session, I open up screen -S session_name and run the script from there, and then…
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error using "du" command

I am on the university machine trying to estimate the disk usage I have on my space I do du -csh ./ from the begining of my account, but an error is given that ./Yesterday/Yesterday is not a device, so I do du -csh --exclude="Yes*" ./ and the…
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Get status of current AFS transfers and cache?

Is there a way to monitor OpenAFS transfers and cache status? I am using the OpenAFS client, and sometimes accessing a certain file (that has not been cached) takes a while. I get impatient because I don't know whether it will be ready soon, or if…
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/afs/ThisCell path resolution fails

When using AFS, you can specify paths as /afs/ThisCell/... instead of using the actual cell name and it will interpolate it for you. That's not working on my local machine, but all other AFS functionality seems to be working fine. I can still access…
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