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1 | Template: openafs-client/cell-info |
| 2 | Type: string | |
| 3 | _Description: DB server host names for your home cell: | |
| 4 | AFS uses the file /etc/openafs/CellServDB to hold the list of servers that | |
| 5 | should be contacted to find parts of a cell. The cell you claim this | |
| 6 | workstation belongs to is not in that file. Enter the host names of the | |
| 7 | database servers separated by spaces. IMPORTANT: If you are creating a new | |
| 8 | cell and this machine is to be a database server in that cell, only enter | |
| 9 | this machine's name; add the other servers later after they are | |
| 10 | functioning. Also, do not enable the AFS client to start at boot on this | |
| 11 | server until the cell is configured. When you are ready you can edit | |
| 12 | /etc/openafs/afs.conf.client to enable the client. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | Template: openafs-client/thiscell | |
| 15 | Type: string | |
| 16 | _Description: AFS cell this workstation belongs to: | |
| 17 | AFS filespace is organized into cells or administrative domains. | |
| 18 | Each workstation belongs to one cell. Usually the cell is the DNS | |
| 19 | domain name of the site. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | Template: openafs-client/cachesize | |
| 22 | Type: string | |
| 23 | Default: 50000 | |
| 24 | _Description: Size of AFS cache in kB: | |
| 25 | AFS uses an area of the disk to cache remote files for faster | |
| 26 | access. This cache will be mounted on /var/cache/openafs. It is | |
| 27 | important that the cache not overfill the partition it is located | |
| 28 | on. Often, people find it useful to dedicate a partition to their | |
| 29 | AFS cache. | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | Template: openafs-client/run-client | |
| 32 | Type: boolean | |
| 33 | Default: true | |
| 34 | _Description: Run Openafs client now and at boot? | |
| 35 | Normally, most users who install the openafs-client package expect AFS to | |
| 36 | be mounted automatically at boot. However, if you are planning on | |
| 37 | setting up a new cell or are on a laptop, you may not want it started at | |
| 38 | boot time. If you choose not to start AFS at boot, run | |
| 39 | service openafs-client force-start to start the client when you wish | |
| 40 | to run it. | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | Template: openafs-client/afsdb | |
| 43 | Type: boolean | |
| 44 | Default: true | |
| 45 | _Description: Look up AFS cells in DNS? | |
| 46 | In order to contact an AFS cell, you need the IP addresses of the cell's | |
| 47 | database servers. Normally, this information is read from | |
| 48 | /etc/openafs/CellServDB. However, if Openafs cannot find a cell in that | |
| 49 | file, it can use DNS to look for AFSDB records that contain the | |
| 50 | information. | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | Template: openafs-client/crypt | |
| 53 | Type: boolean | |
| 54 | Default: true | |
| 55 | _Description: Encrypt authenticated traffic with AFS fileserver? | |
| 56 | AFS provides a weak form of encryption that can optionally be used between | |
| 57 | a client and the fileservers. While this encryption is weaker than DES | |
| 58 | and thus is not sufficient for highly confidential data, it does provide | |
| 59 | some confidentiality and is likely to make the job of a casual attacker | |
| 60 | significantly more difficult. | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | Template: openafs-client/dynroot | |
| 63 | Type: select | |
| 64 | __Choices: Yes, Sparse, No | |
| 65 | Default: Yes | |
| 66 | _Description: Dynamically generate the contents of /afs? | |
| 67 | /afs generally contains an entry for each cell that a client can talk to. | |
| 68 | Traditionally, these entries were generated by servers in the client's | |
| 69 | home cell. However, OpenAFS clients can generate the contents of /afs | |
| 70 | dynamically based on the contents of /etc/openafs/CellServDB and DNS. | |
| 71 | . | |
| 72 | If you generate /afs dynamically, you may need to create | |
| 73 | /etc/openafs/CellAlias to include aliases for common cells. (The syntax | |
| 74 | of this file is one line per alias, with the cell name, a space, and then | |
| 75 | the alias for that cell.) | |
| 76 | . | |
| 77 | The Sparse option is the same as Yes except that, rather than populating | |
| 78 | /afs from /etc/openafs/CellServDB immediately, cells other than the local | |
| 79 | cell will not appear until they are accessed. Cell aliases as set in the | |
| 80 | CellAlias file are shown as normal, although they may appear to be | |
| 81 | dangling links until traversed. | |
| 82 | ||
| 83 | Template: openafs-client/fakestat | |
| 84 | Type: boolean | |
| 85 | Default: true | |
| 86 | _Description: Use fakestat to avoid hangs when listing /afs? | |
| 87 | Because AFS is a global file space, operations on the /afs directory can | |
| 88 | generate significant network traffic. If some AFS cells are unavailable | |
| 89 | then looking at /afs using ls or a graphical file browser may hang your | |
| 90 | machine for minutes. AFS has an option to simulate answers to these | |
| 91 | operations locally to avoid these hangs. You want this option under most | |
| 92 | circumstances. |