----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Brueckner" <lists@...>
To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenAFS server installation


> > Hi there, I'm trying to get an openafs server up and running on a gento
> 1.0 rc6 test 11 box.
>
> nice .. i'm not the only gentooer now :)
>
> > Following the gentoo afs install guide, I got up to step 20,
> > "./vos create xxxx /vicepa root.afs -cell xxxx -noauth" (where xxxx are
> the appropriate values for my server and cell)
> > which then fails with
> > "Failed to create the volume root.afs 536870927
> > : Input/output error
> > Error in vos create command.
> >: Input/output error"
>
> do you actually have a real partition mounted on /vicepa ?!? what
filesystem
> ??

Yup, after much muddling, and a few repeats of 'cannot interpret partition
name blah', I made a new ext2 partition and mounted it at /vicepa. I'm
hoping the ext2 bit it temporary as I'm going to have a bit too much data on
some of my afs volumes to run a non-journaling filesystem - does reiserfs
work with afs yet?

The partition is an LVM logical volume - are there any afs LVM issues I
should be wary of?

> > I've insmod'ed '/etc/afs/modload/libafs-2.4.10-ac3.mp.o' (the libafs
> module for my 2.4.10-ac3 kernel), but I still get
> > the above error.
>
> There are problems with recent kernels .. the kernel developers recently
> like to change the inode definition in every new release :( ... i just
> updated the ebuild to the latest openafs version .. it should be in
portage
> soon (currently testing if it builds ok). update your portage tree (emerge
> rsync) and try emerging openafs-1.2.1-r6.ebuild
>
> i'm not sure if it will work with 2.4.10 though ... it should work with
> 2.4.9-ac10 which i'm using ...

Maybe I'll try that kernel later if things continue to not work :)

Thanks for the help!