openafs project work

February 25, 2010

This month has seen a flurry of finishing touches added to the LCFG openafs component to make it even more useful and robust and it finally reached the point where it was ready for full service. This morning I took great satisfaction in ripping out the heart of the final manually-configured AFS DB server which was still running on an ancient desktop machine. All 3 of the Informatics AFS DB servers have now been moved onto modern server hardware and are fully LCFG managed. This basically brings to an end my involvement with the current AFS project. Over the last few days nearly all our AFS clients have switched to the new component and half of the file servers have now been done. Some time soon I’ll write up a full report on the work I have done over the last 10 months to deliver a new LCFG openafs component. I love it when a plan comes together…