Category Archives: AFS

Good Habits With Your AFS ACL’s

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Andrew Poindexter

These are good habits to use when editing your AFS Access Control Lists (ACL’s) on your Mosaic profile.  Please keep these in mind when giving or removing permissions to your AFS space.   1.  Keep your AFS ACL’s to a … Continue reading →

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Nagios alert: CHECK_AFS_QUOTAS

Posted on June 27, 2011 by William Gortney

Find a staff member who knows the AFS admin password (Jason, Terry, or Rodney) and ask them to fix it. To fix the issue, a staff member should do the following on Linux or Solaris: Open a shell prompt run … Continue reading →

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Setting permissions and access to shared folders on AFS

Posted on June 27, 2011 by William Gortney

Overview Every user gets a disk volume on our network Mosaic file system. The location of this volume is uniquely defined on the file system (think of it as your home address). This volume is where you store your data. This … Continue reading →

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svhost.exe taking all the cpu usage

Posted on May 19, 2011 by David Whisler

“My mosaic desktop in any of the labs is running EXTREMELY slow. When I log on I get a message saying two .dll files are missing from the c: directory and occasionally receive a virus message. Through task manager, 99% … Continue reading →

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What are the current AFS limits

Posted on May 19, 2011 by David Whisler

On Windows: On all platforms: * 2TB maximum volume size, but realistically should be 1TB to allow for backup snapshots (copy-on-write) if the 2TB partition limit is in effect. * before Fall 2009 – 2TB maximum partition size on fileserver … Continue reading →

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Access to other Mosaic user directories

Posted on May 19, 2011 by David Whisler

One of the common confusion for Mosaic users is that when they want to give access to their directory they neglect to give the full path of their directory to the community of users who need access.

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