On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:18:22 +0100 (BST)
Greig A Cowan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > 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
gPlazma will be out in the 1.7 release, I really don't know too much
about releases following the next release. If you need to know please
submit a bug, and I will try and get the implementation plan, but I
think D-cache prefers to post announce functionality.
Regards
Owen
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> >
> > 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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