AFS Setup

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Current

  • Each user has a non-public <username> homedir volume on Apollo, a <username>.mail volume on Hermes, and a world-readable public subfolder of their homedir
  • Apollo and Athena both have /vicepa through /vicepc.
  • Hermes has /vicepa

Archived

  1. Motherfucking AFS authors thought it was OK to use a signed int to store space. Result? 2 TB limit on partition sizes instead of a 4 TB limit. Also heard somewhere that it fucks up on inodes over 1.4 TB, so we needed to split up the disks into 3 sections.
  2. fdisking the md device? Useless. Doesn't create the devices. So, we're now using LVM, works like a charm.
  3. Motherfucking AFS authors decided to make directories have a maximum file count [1]
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