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OpenAFS definitely has been used in (some variant of) this way, with at least some success. You might find some reference to such on the openafs-info list from a few years go. I have not seen formal discussion of the results. Matt Richard Human wrote: > Hi all, <snip> > So we're looking at open-afs. We are thinking of a situation where we > have a cell of 2+ servers on the back-end with our data spread over a > number of volumes, that we can move around. This takes care of the > scalability issue. For redundancy we would investigate the volume > replication feature. > > I've read the success stories on the website. However, most of these > cases talk about scenarios where there are 100s of clients accessing an > afs cell that is holding users' home directories. In our scenario we > will have 5 to 10 (max) clients, but performing 5k - 10K operations > across the whole cell per second. > > My question is simple: has/can open-afs be used in a situation like > this? If it has/can then I will go on with building a test platform and > testing it in our environment. But before doing that I'd like to know if > I'm on the right track. > > Many thanks > Richard Human > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info - -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3JCgJiSUUSaRdSURCBYVAKCGbK1Mxthb6fPVPvNdxFuvkseDxACdGJwX nCwGMH5S/szAOMRitz8mAas= =3Msv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info