Tutorial: Introduction to AFS and its Best Practices - Tuesday March 23, 2004
This tutorial will be given by Alf Wachsmann. Tutorial and Workshop take
place in Building 48 (ROB) at SLAC.
It will not be hands-on.
The content is very much work in progress. Please send suggestions for other topics to afsbest-workshop@slac.stanford.edu
Tentative Content
- General Introduction to AFS (9:00 - 10:00)
- Short history of AFS
- What is AFS
- Strengths and weaknesses of AFS: Where you should and should not use AFS
- AFS lingo (cell, partition, volume, cache, principal, token, ACL, etc.)
- AFS Client Topics (10:00 - 10:30, 11:00 - 11:30)
- Client installation
- Client configuration
- File systems for AFS cache
- Getting started without your own AFS servers
- AFS Server Topics (11:30 - 12:30, 13:30 - 15:00)
- Planning a new cell
- AFS file space layout
- Server capacity planning
- Volume replication
- Limiting access via IP address range
- Naming schemas and conventions
- Server filesystems
- namei vs. inode fileserver
- Kerberos 5 KDC instead of kaserver
- DB Server installation
- Fileserver installation
- Volume maintenance (moving, quota, etc.)
- Fileserver maintenance (partitions, load balancing, etc.)
- Backup
- Advanced AFS Topics (15:30 - 17:00)
- Cross-realm authentication
- Interoperability with different operating systems (Unices, Windows, MacOS)
- Translators: NFS, Samba
- Tools and Techniques for Administering a Large AFS Cell:
- Cron jobs
- Delegation of administration