> Yes expect NFS4 to have more functionality, things like ACL's.
So if sites have to use NFS3, will they not have the ability to set ACLs?
Do you know how this will impact the support for VOMs within dCache? Or is
VOMs being handled by another component (gPlazma perhaps)?
Greig
>
> Its not out yet or in prerelease so I don't feel I can preanounce too
> much
>
> Regards
>
> Owen
>
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:26:34 +0100
> > > Greig A Cowan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > For information, the new PNFS will use nfs4. Not sure when
> > > > > > this will be out though...
> > > > >
> > > > > Does this means that RHEL3 will not be supported any more? AFAIK
> > > > > nfs4 is not supported under 2.4 kernels.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, I made a typo. It will use nfs3, which will remove the
> > > > filesize limitation. This is supported under 2.4 kernels, AFAIK.
> > > >
> > > > Greig
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually you where correct both times Greig, Chimera, will be NFS3
> > > and NFS4.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Owen
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > > On a similar note I noticed that a du /pnfs only reports
> > > > > > > half the space used by dcache in the file system (we seem to
> > > > > > > have lost ~3T) no idea yet if it's because we have too many
> > > > > > > files above 2G or if dcache managed to forget about some
> > > > > > > files (half of them?!) which has happened before. Has anyone
> > > > > > > else checked if what pnfs reports is the same as what the
> > > > > > > filesystem usage in the pools is?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You could check that all the PNFSids in the filesystem have
> > > > > > corresponding entries in the namespace. You would have to run
> > > > > > the pathfinder tool from within /pnfs on a list of PNFSids
> > > > > > from the filesystem. Any files not in the namespace should
> > > > > > return a file not found error. Alternatively, you can log into
> > > > > > the admin interface ;) , connect to each of the pools and then
> > > > > > run the 'pnfs register' command. This should make sure that
> > > > > > all files in the filesystem get an entry in the namespace.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll have a look.
> > > > >
> > > > > Kostas
> > > > >
> > > >
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