OpenAFS 1.4.2 RPM is now available for FC6.
OpenAFS 1.4.1 RPM is now available for FC5.
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.
IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.
On Nov 9, 2004, OpenAFS project released a development release of OpenAFS 1.3.74 but there is still no official support for Fedora Core 3 yet.
So here is a HOWTO for building OpenAFS 1.3.74 RPM packages for Fedora Core 3 and I made pre-built binaries available at the end of this article.
Before we begin, I would like to say big thinks to Matthew Miller with Boston University and Dr. Frank Bagehorn with IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland.
Let's begin!
(Make sure you have created rpmbuild directory in your own home.)
First, download FC2 OpenAFS Source RPM and install it to extract most of sources we need:
openafs-1.3.74-3.src.rpm (by Matthew Miller)
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ls openafs-1.3.74-3.src.rpm [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ rpm -ivh openafs-1.3.74-3.src.rpm 1:openafs warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root%) warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root%) warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root ########################################### [100%] warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root warning: user mattdm does not exist - using root warning: group mattdm does not exist - using root [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ mv ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/* . [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ls CellServDB openafs-1.3.74-3.src.rpm README.RPM extractkernheaders.sh openafs-1.3.74-src.tar.bz2 TODO.RPM kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-i686.tar.bz2 openafs-config kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp-i686.tar.bz2 openafs-init.sh [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$Then, remove old FC2 kernel headers and build new FC3 kernel headers using the latest kernel binaries:
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ls kernelheaders*.bz2 kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-i686.tar.bz2 kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp-i686.tar.bz2 [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ rm kernelheaders*.bz2 [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ls kernel*.rpm kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ./extractkernheaders.sh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm ..omitted.. -rw-rw-r-- 1 tchung tchung 2650687 Dec 6 15:42 kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-i686.tar.bz2 [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ./extractkernheaders.sh kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm ..omitted.. -rw-rw-r-- 1 tchung tchung 2656527 Dec 6 15:43 kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp-i686.tar.bz2 [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ls kernelheaders*.bz2 kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-i686.tar.bz2 kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp-i686.tar.bz2 [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$
Now download updated spec and patch for FC3 to begin rpmbuild:
openafs.spec
openafs-1.3.74-authclient.patch (by Dr. Frank Bagehorn)
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ ls CellServDB kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm openafs-init.sh extractkernheaders.sh openafs-1.3.74-3.src.rpm openafs.spec kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm openafs-1.3.74-authclient.patch README.RPM kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-i686.tar.bz2 openafs-1.3.74-src.tar.bz2 TODO.RPM kernelheaders-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp-i686.tar.bz2 openafs-config [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ cp * ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ cp *.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/openafs.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.87910 + umask 022 + cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + unset DISPLAY + cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf openafs-1.3.74 + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SOURCES/openafs-1.3.74-src.tar.bz2 + tar -xf - ...omitted... Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SRPMS/openafs-1.3.74-1.FC3.src.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-client-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-server-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-devel-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-debuginfo-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4366 + umask 022 + cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd openafs-1.3.74 + rm -rf /var/tmp/openafs-1.3.74-1.FC3-root-tchung + exit 0 Removing all files from ~/rpmbuild/... [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$
For client, you only need to install, openafs and openafs-client:
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ sudo rpm -Uvh /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:openafs ########################################### [100%] [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ sudo rpm -Uvh /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/openafs-client-1.3.74-1.FC3.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:openafs-client ########################################### [100%] [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$
Then configure the client to point to your organization's AFS server:
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ sudo vi /etc/openafs/CellServDB >grand.central.org #GCO Public CellServDB 11 May 2004 18.7.14.88 #grand-opening.mit.edu 128.2.191.224 #penn.central.org ... [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ sudo vi /etc/openafs/ThisCell openafs.org .. [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ sudo vi /etc/openafs/CellAlias openafs.org openafs ..
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[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ sudo /sbin/service afs start
Loading AFS kernel module: [ OK ]
Determining AFS cache size: [ OK ]
Starting AFS client daemon: [ OK ]
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
18G 4.2G 13G 26% /
/dev/hdb1 99M 13M 82M 13% /boot
none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
AFS 8.6G 0 8.6G 0% /afs
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$
To login, check with your organization AFS administrator for more information.
[tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ klog tchung Password: [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$ tokens Tokens held by the Cache Manager: ... --End of list-- [tchung@tchung-fc3 openafs]$
Here are the pre-built OpenAFS binary RPMs for Fedora Core 3.