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andresailer opened this issue Feb 25, 2025 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #249
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MacOS quickstart instructions. #248

andresailer opened this issue Feb 25, 2025 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #249

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andresailer commented Feb 25, 2025 •
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The MacOS quickstart:

1.) references creating directories

doc-cvmfs/cpt-quickstart.rst

Lines 170 to 171 in 2de0053

sudo mkdir -p /cvmfs/cvmfs-config.cern.ch
sudo mount -t cvmfs cvmfs-config.cern.ch /cvmfs/cvmfs-config.cern.ch

In many cases on recent Mac operating this does not work (unless disabling SIP?).

mkdir /asdasd
mkdir: /asdasd: Read-only file system

But cvmfs_config would create the /etc/synthetic.conf entry

% cat /etc/synthetic.conf
# The line below was autogenerated by CernVM-FS, do not delete nor edit
cvmfs   /Users/Shared/cvmfs

However, the quickstart does not mention running cvmfs_config for macOS, so maybe some steps are missing? Or did I miss that somewhere?

2.) After creating /etc/synthetic.conf it tells one to reboot, but one can trigger that also with
/System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util -t
right?

PS:
3.) Is the /etc/cvmfs/default.conf needed on macOS, or is this only when using autofs?
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vvolkl commented Feb 25, 2025

Thanks for the issue report! 1) and 2) are adressed in the linked PR(s)

  1. /etc/cvmfs/default.conf are CVMFS client configuration parameters. Those apply regardless of how you mount cvmfs - autofs or manually. We usually require the user to set CVMFS_HTTP_PROXY (=DIRECT if it's a single machine) in /etc/cvmfs/default.local . That should apply also on macos, I'll double check and update the instructions if necessary

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Thanks for the prompt action!

Sorry, I wrote the default.conf from memory.

Would be good to know if or what we need to set for macos.

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update quickstart instructions on macos for firmlinks vvolkl/doc-cvmfs
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