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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. |