European AFS & Kerberos Conference 2014

Session

OpenAFS Updates (Part 2)

26 Mar 2014, 16:30

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

22. Rx security issues: OpenAFS and the rxkad k5 and kdf updates

D Brashear (Your File System, Inc)

26/03/2014, 16:30

Some discussion on what led to the rxkad updates and what value they bring to the table... and what they do not.

10. AFS Performance

Simon Wilkinson (Y)

26/03/2014, 17:00

Many users, administrators and developers have observed that OpenAFS scales badly on multi-core machines. On some platforms we not only fail to take advantage of additional cores, but run slower than we would on an equivalent single core machine. This talk will examine the reasons for this. We will present recent work profiling the AFS server suite and discuss ways of using this information...

14. OOB Update

Mr Andrew Deason (Sine Nomine Associates)

26/03/2014, 17:30

In 2012, I presented about the prototype "Out of Band" project, a project to allow OpenAFS bulk network communication over protocols besides Rx/UDP (such as TCP). Per the original plan, OOB has since been partially redesigned in order to address shortcomings in the original design. This new implementation fixes various problems, allows OOB to be more easily used for other arbitrary...

21. AFS-OSD current state and future

Hartmut Reuter (M)

26/03/2014, 18:00

AFS-OSD is currently used at two sites with totally more than 1 PByte of data. Some fileservers are still openafs 1.4 based, others already 1.6 based. The 1.6-based source is kept in github. For the integration into openafs 1.9 a stripped version is being prepared for openafs's git master which is compatible to the 1.6 version in github, but not to the old 1.4 based clients and servers.