List of Attendees

• Love Hornquist-Astrand (Stockholm University)
• Ken Hornstein (NRL)
• Mattias Amnefelt (KTH)
• Jimmy Engelbrech (KTH)
• Garry Zacheiss (MIT)
• Jonathon Weiss (MIT)
• Tracy Di Marco White (Iowa State U.)
• Russ Allbery (Stanford)
• Huaqing Zheng (Stanford)
• Clem Cole (Paceline Systems)
• Marc Staveley (SOMA Networks)
• Brent Johnson (JPL)
• Mitch Collinsworth (Cornell)
• Alexande Bostrum (KTH)
• Eldon Norton (Arizona State U.)
• James Durand (Arizona State U.)
• Matthew Andrews (LBL)
• Andrew Bacchi (Rensselaer PI)
• Renata Dart (SLAC)
• Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)
• Ingemar Nilsson (KTH)
• Harald Barth (KTH)
• Robert Wakehouse (Intel)
• Travis Broughton (Intel)
• Joakim Fallsjo (Sanchin)
• Jim Barbour (Qualcomm)
• Jim Rees (U Mich)

Current Agenda:

• Talk: Status of Arla - Love
• Talk: Status of OpenAFS - Derrick

  Performance

• Arla statistics gathering
• AFS performance over long distances
• Global openafs.org cell & the problems related to it
• Measuring performance losses, especially on writes, on modern hardware
• Issues in the use of AFS in a PC cluster, such as "warming" the cache

  tools

• Talk: AFScrawler [breadth first search in the afs graph] - Jimmy
• managing credentials in a batch scheduled environment
• any development on a friendly UI for basic operations
• AFS file & acl management via the Web
• running AFS user commands under Internix [aka Msoft SFU 3.0]
• using CVS in AFS
• Themis [Arla's package replacement]

  administration

• Making it so you can easily change the cell name
• AFS and SAN & NAS
• Using high bandwidth interconnects between servers in a cell
• using Balance
• client tuning
• large site configuration and management
• Talk: Stanford's growing & changing plans - Russ
• Talk: Intel's experiences with OpenAFS - Travis

  backups

• Talk: Using amanda to backup AFS - Mitch
• single file restores
• large scale backups with ADSM
• scanning the whole tree for backups
• backup strategies [adsm, etc.]

  DAY TWO

  Authentication

• Talk: The pitfalls in configuring AFS+Krb4+OpenLDAP+PAM on RedHat 7.2 - Andrew B.
• moving to KRB5
• integrated KRB5 support in OpenAFS
• rpcsec-gss and Kerberos v51

  development

• status of the new ubik protocol [nubik?]
• regression testing
• disconnected operations
• Now that the "big demand" features are done or in the works for OpenAFS, now what's the plan?
• Has anyone implemented the fix for "very full partition" badness
• Concurrent salvages
• Live salvaging

  politics

• MR-AFS licensing
• moving production services to OpenAFS
• AFS integration into modern Unix file managers, such as Evolution, Gnome & OSX

  OS

• How to replace a Msoft SMB-based networking with AFS & resulting issues
• Arla & OpenAFS on Compaq Tru64 Unix
• status of windows support in OpenAFS

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